Philosophy routinely finds itself charting a course between two seemingly irreconcilable positions, a middle way between extremes. The first update in...
We take worlds for granted. Science reduces them; literature shrinks them and philosophy ignores them. And yet, without the world we would be nothing....
Horizontal epistemology is the norm in the age of big data. It's not enough to perform one experiment but to have uniform standards for a family of ex...
Why stick to linear arguments thick with text? Can we make sense of the world by skipping from word to song to figure? Why not connect the new when th...
Every era of quickening change has its existential worries, when solid ground becomes quicksand. Here I use 'demons' to probe the shifting ground of k...
We have become good at mapping the errors of the visual system on to the furniture of the universe. Fantastic, but we are missing out on all the other...
We think of the brain as where sensation is transformed into experience. Instead, I argue that whatever the brain does, whether information processing...
Information surrounds us at every turn; therefore, attention is the scarcest resource. When our attention is potentially fooled at every step, we eith...