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Review of Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson’s “Unto Others”
Last week Skeptic Senior Editor Frank Miele attended the Human Behavior and Evolution Society’s annual conference to cover it...
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The Making of a Shaman: A Comparative Study of Inuit, African, and Nepalese Shaman Initiation
According to the thinking of many societies, spiritual forces outside of ourselves exist. In our illnesses and breaks from...
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Unlimited Love
The Challenge St. Paulelevated love over a faith that moves mountains (I Cor. 13). He diminished even laudable altruistic...
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How the Unconscious Shapes Science
“. . . it still strikes me myself as strange that the case histories I should write should...
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Human Creativity: Expanding Complexity and Evolutionary Discontinuities
Examining human creativity within the context of natural history and cultural evolution.
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Untangling the Hard Problem of Consciousness
A feeling of alienation is a common reaction to modern scientific descriptions of the cosmos. As journalist Bryan Appleyard...
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The Singularity of Self in the Later Foucault: Reconsidering the End(s) of Poststructuralist Thought
Introduction Recent years have seen influential ‘left’ theorists such as Alain Badiou and Slavoj ﾎiﾞek1 join with earlier ‘right’...
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Emmanuel Levinas’ Challenge to the Modern European Cultural Identity
Also check out Deconstructing Europe, Emanuel Paparella’s new weekly column in the Global Spiral. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– “I am quite...
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Dousing the Flames
How can we put social intelligence online? Poor Michael Brown. During the darkest days of the Hurricane Katrina debacle,...
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Human Uniqueness and Symbolization
The following is an excerpted chapter from van Huyssteen’s, Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and...
