Peter Graarup Westergaard explains why love is never just physical, with the aid of Donald Davidson’s anomalous monism. Most people have felt the gap between the consciousness of love and the physical ...

Rogério Severo looks at the brain to see the world anew. It seems there was a time when metaphysicians were all of a single species. Now they appear to make up at least two. Of the newer kind is the ...

Roger Haines contemplates how we consciously manage our minds. A Martian, I’m told, recently visited a terrestrial garment factory. He was surprised to see that the boss never touched a sewing machine ...

James Miles argues, among other things, that E.T. will be like Kim Kardashian, and that the real threat of advanced AI has been misunderstood. In 1995 the English mathematical biologist John Maynard ...

Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to the many entrants not included. “Time does not exist without change,” said Aristotle. Until recently, most physicists and cosmologists agreed with him.

who I suppose are also her examiners.

Nigel Hems asks, does Mary see colours differently outside her room? The ‘Mary’s Room’ thought experiment devised by Frank Jackson goes something like this. Mary is raised from birth in a black and ...

Peter Worley tells us how to be right, righter, rightest. We enjoy being right. There are many ways to delight in this pleasure, some more noble than others. We might feel good when we’ve made a good ...

Jonathan Moens considers whether emergence can explain minds from brains. One September in Rome, as I waited for the 700 bus, I looked up and noticed a black tide of birds hanging over Il Vittoriano ...

World Congress: a report from Rome • Morality found to change with weather • Critic & philosopher Fredric Jameson dies — News reports by Anja Steinbauer ...

The title of this issue’s special theme, ‘Thoughts On Thought’, is partly a tribute to our onetime contributor Antony Flew, who wrote a well-known book called Thinking About Thinking. Flew’s book ...

‘More songs about Buildings and Food’ was the title of a 1978 album by the rock band Talking Heads. It was about all the things rock stars normally don’t sing about. Pop songs are usually about ...