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After years of insomnia, I threw off the effort to sleep and embraced the peculiar openness I found in the darkest hours ...

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In order to make headway on knotty metaphysical problems, philosophers should look to the methods used by scientists ...

For Indians to be truly free, Gandhi argued they must take up traditional crafts. Was it a quixotic hope or inspired solution ...

When animals seem to grieve for their dead, such as staying with them for days, is it anthropomorphism or something more?

Evolution isn’t linear and it doesn’t have a masterplan – a microbiologist explains the role of randomness in the process ...

is associate professor of philosophy at Hamilton College in New York. She is the author of Thinking Through Food: A Philosophical Introduction (2019) and Awkwardness (2024).