"Truth is a normative commitment inherent in scientific knowledge." Michela Massimi Michela Massimi with a robust and sophisticated case for truth as the heart of the scientific endeavor aeon.co/essays/its-tim… … via Aeon Magazine

Are there universal sensations – of sliminess, smoothness or speed – that certain sounds can trigger? David Robson on the deep evolutionary significance of linguistic 'ideophones' aeon.co/essays/in-the-…

Laughter may have emerged in response to the overthrow of 'despotic' ape societies – and opened the way for modern, socially-embedded human cognition aeon.co/essays/does-la…

'I die a little inside every time we experience a cultural phenomenon with a veneer of ‘wisdom from the East’ on it': on Marie Kondo and the uses and abuses of Eastern wisdom by the superb Amy Olberding aeon.co/ideas/tidying-…

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'When I was nine years old, on a sunny summer afternoon, I was kidnapped and sexually assaulted. I didn’t have words to describe what happened; I was too young to know the vocabulary of sex.' Feminist philosopher Linda Alcoff on tangled truth and testimony aeon.co/essays/consist…

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Why is sleep such a moral minefield? A rich excavation of our nocturnal habits by way of anthropology, biology and politics aeon.co/essays/its-tim…

Far from being brutish or unevolved, the uncanny complexity of Neanderthals is forcing us to rethink the porous boundaries of humanity – by Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes aeon.co/essays/to-know…

Think Australian philosophy looks like this? Don't be so sure. aeon.co/essays/why-doe…

'As trans people, we often find that established ways of talking about bodies are simply not built for us – that they belong to a view of the world in which we’re not merely despised, but unimaginable.' aeon.co/essays/why-tra…

Habits are much cooler, more complex and philosophically rich than current discourse about 'self-hacking' suggests. A provocation by Elias Anttila aeon.co/ideas/a-philos…

Pitting 'continental' against 'analytic' feminist philosophy is like 'comparing a car made in Japan with a car that’s got four-wheel drive' aeon.co/essays/do-anal…

Across science and spirituality, humans seek novelty and surprise as much as structure and predictability. Alan Lightman on maintaining a millennia-long juggling act between order and disorder aeon.co/essays/the-mus…

We don't have stone-age brains that instinctively reach for language and imitation, says Cecilia Heyes – instead, our ever-shifting culture is what teaches us how to learn. Read, and change your mind about your mind aeon.co/essays/how-cul…

The human eye is an exquisitely tuned quantum detector aeon.co/essays/an-eye-…

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