Philosophical Disquisitions

I have long been interested in behavioural science and behavioural economics — heck, I even wrote a masters thesis about it once. I ha...

If you’re like me, then reading will be an important part of your life. Indeed, it might just be the most important part of your ...

Meaning is important. People want to live meaningful lives. They want to make a ‘difference’. They want for it all to ‘matter’. Some p...

( Part One ) Discoveries in neuroscience, and the science of behaviour more generally, pose a challenge to the existence of free wil...

Consider the following passage from Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement . It concerns one of the novel’s characters (Briony) as she philosop...

The Murder of Agamemnon - A Revenge Killing? “Revenge is a dish best served cold…”   (Ancient Klingon Proverb) When I was younge...