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In Defense of “Should”
8+ hour, 12+ min ago (803+ words) Updated January 14, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Lose weight. Declutter. Meditate. Find a new job. Get my act together. Many of us live with a low-grade sense of being behind. Should speaks to that gap. These shoulds are often harsh,…...
Where Is the Future?
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (221+ words) Posted January 12, 2026 | Reviewed by Davia Sills Time is abstract. We cannot see it, touch it, or point to it directly. Cognitive science has long shown that when humans grapple with abstract ideas, we rely on more concrete experiences, especially bodily…...
Introspection and Consciousness: The Illusionism Debate
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (406+ words) Updated January 12, 2026 | Reviewed by Tyler Woods Why does consciousness exist? This question lies at the heart of my book, A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness, in which I argue that consciousness evolved to help animals navigate difficult trade-offs…...
How AI removes the obligations that give human thought its weight.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (784+ words) Posted January 5, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye I think it's fair to say that artificial intelligence is inconsistent, frequently wrong, and sometimes shallow. While the evangelists might push back, anyone who uses it regularly knows this. It misses context, invents details,…...
Why we long for what we once despised.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (558+ words) Updated January 5, 2026 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch " she felt stuck because she came to learn that even though the job she holds and the life she has built for herself "look great on paper," she felt trapped. "I miss the no-nights,…...
When metaphysics turns psychological and archetypes come from human relations.
1+ week, 4+ day ago (730+ words) Posted January 3, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley When I was learning multiplication, my father showed me the "rule of 9." Multiply any number by 9, he said, and then add together the digits of the product, and you will always land on 9. 9 " 2 = 18 " 1 + 8 = 99 " 3 = 27 " 2 + 7 = 99 " 12 = 108 " 1 + 0 + 8 = 9 Every…...
The Greeks understood something we've forgotten about recurring patterns.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (866+ words) Posted January 1, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley The New Year is upon us. That familiar sense of returning to the same place: same resolutions, same hopes, maybe the same weight, job dissatisfaction, or relationship patterns you swore you'd address. For most…...
18 Unwritten Rules for a Geezer Breakfast Club | Psychology Today Singapore
1+ week, 6+ day ago (443+ words) Posted January 1, 2026 | Reviewed by Lybi Ma I was scrolling Reddit the other day and found something interesting in the /r/GenX subreddit about male breakfast clubs. That got me thinking about the movie The Breakfast Club (1985). I know it's a…...
And how it shaped, and conflicted with, his philosophy.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (816+ words) Updated January 1, 2026 | Reviewed by Ekua Hagan Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 1712 in the Republic of Geneva. At the age of 16, he ran away from the city. At the age of 20 or 21, Rousseau returned to Warens in Chamb'ry, and their relationship…...
The revolution consciousness science needs.
2+ week, 2+ day ago (329+ words) Posted December 29, 2025 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk This may not seem controversial, but philosophers have long been hostile to the idea that evolutionary biology could resolve major philosophical problems. I therefore anticipated immediate pushback. But it did not come. In the…...