The idea of nothing pushes at the limits of thought, spawning paradoxes that have long nourished art, philosophy, and science ...

is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His books include Waking, Dreaming, Being (2015) and, co-authored with ...

is a philosopher and currently a Moritz Schlick postdoc at the University of Vienna in Austria. He is the author of Empty-Base Explanation (2023).

In her critically acclaimed short documentary A Move, the London-based director Elahe Esmaili returns to her hometown of Mashhad, Iran, to help her parents relocate for the first time in four decades.

is professor of history at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He is the author of many books, the latest being No More Work: Why Full Employment is a Bad Idea (2016). He lives in New York.

is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Leeds in the UK and associate researcher at the Research Center on Macroeconomics of Inequalities (Made) at the University of São ...

Anyone who has learned a second language will have made an exhilarating (and yet somehow unsettling) discovery: there is never a one-to-one correspondence in meaning between the words and phrases of ...

Empathy comes in two distinct forms: affective empathy is our instinct for mirroring the emotions of others, while cognitive empathy is our conscious ability to understand someone else’s perspective.

Religious belief is often thought to evince a precarious kind of commitment, in which the degree of conviction is inversely proportional to correspondence with the facts. Exhibit A for this common ...

Warren met his cancer diagnosis with tenacious optimism. But can positive thinking really affect the course of the disease?

is a German-born historian of science and magic who runs the Forbidden Histories website. His first book Psychical Research and the Formation of Modern Psychology is forthcoming. He lives in the UK.

is professor emeritus of philosophy of science at the University of Leeds, UK. His most recent book is A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics (2023).