For me and many others, contemplating death has clarified what matters. These curiosity-based exercises will get you started ...

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is James B Duke Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology emeritus at Duke University in North Carolina. He lives in Durham, North Carolina and Brooklin, Maine. He ...

is an evolutionary social psychologist with broad interests in how the recurrent challenges of our distant past help us understand our motivational states today. He is the author of The Social Leap ...

Reason emerges through dialogue with others. To truly flourish, stop self-censoring and risk your status to speak your mind ...

Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.

Awe might seem an unobtainable luxury to many but, with the right approach, you can enjoy it daily – no mountain required ...

Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.

I always thought I could be an asocial primate. I cannot.’ How microbes helped James connect with the human-scale world ...