In The Master and His Emissary Iain McGilchrist argues our left brain hemisphere, the “emissary”, has usurped the right hemisphere, … Read more
Do you ever catch yourself lying awake at night, wondering if the world is really as it appears, or if … Read more
Do you actually have a mind, or is that just a convenient story you tell yourself? Bertrand Russell’s The Analysis … Read more
Ever wonder why your sharpest colleague makes the most baffling decisions, or why highly educated people sometimes believe the most … Read more
Does a single idea really have the power to dissolve religion, rewrite morality, and explain the human mind — all … Read more
Did you know that a three-year-old child — who cannot tie her shoelaces, cannot add two numbers, and does not … Read more
Why do we fall in love, laugh at jokes, see meaning in stories, fear danger before thinking clearly, and still … Read more
Why do men across every culture and civilization consistently fall for youth and beauty while women—no matter how wealthy or … Read more
Do you remember that moment of electric connection when someone’s words—not their body, not their résumé—made your heart race and … Read more
What happens when a chess prodigy, a video game designer, a neuroscientist, and a Nobel Prize winner all inhabit the … Read more
We’re pulled by emotions, confused by conflicting beliefs, and uncertain about freedom. Ethics by Baruch Spinoza asks: What would life … Read more
We keep tripping over words—meaning, mind, rule, game—as if they were crystal-clear. They aren’t. Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein shows, … Read more
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger is one of the most argued-about books in twentieth-century philosophy. If you’ve ever wondered … Read more
We all use reason to reach beyond experience: “What is time? What causes what? Is the world finite? Does freedom … Read more
If everything you trust—your senses, your memories, even mathematics—could be wrong, what could you still know for sure? Meditations on … Read more