The first in a series examining the backlash to our HHS report.

The current chapter explores the opportunities and challenges faced by evolutionary psychology in light of its historical context, its strengths and limitations, the similarities and differences betwe...

For many decades now there has been pressure on universities as institutions and on university academics to take a stance on culture war topics. One of the latest pressures relates to trans rights—to....

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One of the most urgent questions facing society today is the potential impact of AI on education and labor markets. So it’s no surprise that two scientists attempted to provide an answer, produc

How the pursuit of material, social, and sexual advantage shapes our values

An idea to discount tuition fees if students spend a year working as a carer.

Teen mental health is improving even as screen use remains high.

The woman known as “Jane Doe” was initially embarrassed about what happened at a fraternity party in 2024, but soon concluded: “I was assaulted.”

On some accounts, public philosophy is set the very ambitious goal of delivering societal benefits. On other accounts, it is met with skepticism due to the belief that it can be at most a form of entertainment or a way to popularize knowledge. In this paper, we make a proposal about what the benefits of public philosophy can realistically be. Although it is hard to prove that engagement with philosophy enhances well-being, creates better citizens, and successfully bridges science and practical concerns, doing philosophy can help individuals practice the intellectual virtues that underpin their epistemic agency, so it is not just a form of entertainment. With such practice, members of the public can better identify implicit assumptions in common ways of thinking, exercise intellectual curiosity and epistemic humility, and engage respectfully but critically with different perspectives. We offer three examples of public philosophy that are conducive to the practice of the skills that support epistemic agency.

Abstract This paper reconceptualizes free will as a concept that evolved culturally as a justification for our moral practices. Such a justification becomes relevant when people consider the possibili...

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Comments on Lowrey Hello Len Gutkin, Below are my comments on Lowrey’s attack on Chagnon. Lowrey says, “His portrayals of Yanomami as “the fierce people” were used by Brazilian and Venezuelan settl...

Saying anthropologists at UCSB investigated Chagnon and found him blameless is like saying anthropologists at Princeton investigated Fuentes and Rouse and found them marvellous, or that a blue ribbon ...

In tests, some AI systems resisted being shut down. But an instinct to stay “alive” isn’t the reason they behaved that way.

Music Studies is a broad field, encompassing musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, performance and composition. There is also a growing empirical division: cognition, which brings Music Studies i...

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Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Disinformation, Ideology, and Public Opinion in Central Europe

How mass education and elite education synergistically reproduce and enhance inequalities; why education is not an effective vehicle for “social justice.”

Exploring how we think, disagree, and act when the world resists easy answers. Click to read No Easy Answers, by Igor Grossmann, a Substack publication. Launched 34 minutes ago.

What’s a feeling for? What is jealousy measuring and motivating? Why do both awe and grief slow us down? What happens when ancient emotions meet dating apps and like buttons? Does the intensi…

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Joseph Henrich, an author of a divisive report about politicization in the humanities, says, “I knew it wasn’t going to make everyone happy.”

Positivity bias skews the scientific record by favoring positive results. Understanding the drivers and impact of such bias provides a foundation for creating solutions.

Art theory has consistently emphasised the importance of situational, cultural, institutional and historical factors in viewers’ experience of fine art. However, the link between this heavily context-...

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A prize-winning French novel is accused of being written by AI. The interesting question is why that would matter.

How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification

Before Friedrich Nietzsche became a mononym in the history of philosophy, he was an expert examiner of textual antiquities. He spent his undergraduate years in Bonn deciphering rare manuscripts alongs...

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Geuss argues that the crisis of Western societies is more fundamental than political dysfunction or economic decline: the ideological architecture of Western civilization is coming apart along fault l...

Is the pronounced gap in throwing ability between men and women purely a product of childhood socialization? A new commentary argues that evolutionary biology and social experience actually work hand-...