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Psychopaths have feelings: can they learn how to use them? | Aeon Ideas

Dewey knew how to teach democracy and we must not forget it | Aeon Essays

Why is the Iranian government opening the world’s biggest bookstore? | Aeon Ideas

Consciousness is not a thing, but a process of inference | Aeon Essays

How playing Wittgensteinian language-games can set us free | Aeon Ideas

The complexity of social problems is outsmarting the human brain | Aeon Essays

From accents to ‘sleep signing’ – the psychology and the politics of sign language | Aeon Videos

To be happier, focus on what’s within your control | Aeon Ideas

Put yourself in Vichy France: do you resist or collaborate? | Aeon Essays

Dewey knew how to teach democracy and we must not forget it | Aeon Essays

Marriage should not come with any social benefits or privileges | Aeon Ideas

People born intersex have a right to genital integrity | Aeon Essays

What know-it-alls don’t know, or the illusion of competence | Aeon Ideas

Voluntary taxation: a lesson from the Ancient Greeks | Aeon Ideas

We could all do with learning how to improvise a little better | Aeon Ideas

How Cold War philosophy permeates US society to this day | Aeon Essays

How politeness became a tool of radical democratic politics | Aeon Essays

How close are we to creating artificial intelligence? | Aeon Essays

Is motherhood always about self-sacrifice? | Aeon Essays

Can architecture improve our sex lives? | Aeon Essays

Buddhism can be as violent as any other religion | Aeon Essays

What Plato knew about behavioural economics. (A lot) | Aeon Essays

News has never been pristine, always entangled in time | Aeon Essays

Only governments can safeguard the openness of the internet | Aeon Ideas

When philosophy needed Muslims, Jews and Christians alike | Aeon Ideas

How Cold War rivalry helped launch the Chinese computer | Aeon Ideas

The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines | Aeon Ideas

The human world is not more fragile now: it always has been | Aeon Essays

Stuck on one idea of truth or beauty? Rhizomes can help | Aeon Ideas

What really happens in Schrödinger’s box? | Aeon Essays

Philosophy of Language | Aeon

Remote control of the brain is coming: how will we use it? | Aeon Ideas

Revisiting the American Dream in the cold light of today | Aeon Essays

Why it’s high time that attitudes to addiction changed | Aeon Essays

How self-harm provokes the brain into feeling better | Aeon Essays

We need ecstasy and cocaine in place of Prozac and Xanax | Aeon Ideas

It is time for love to become a radical force in politics | Aeon Essays

How the Frankfurt School diagnosed the ills of Western civilisation | Aeon Essays

Why do mountaineers choose the hardest routes to the top? | Aeon Essays

How much does evolution depend on chance? | Aeon Essays

Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex | Aeon Ideas

Psychopaths have feelings: can they learn how to use them? | Aeon Ideas

Where does swearing get its power – and how should we use it? | Aeon Essays

Wars are not won by military genius or decisive battles | Aeon Ideas

How the Cold War led the CIA to promote human capital theory | Aeon Essays

Science has outgrown the human mind and its limited capacities | Aeon Ideas

What Chinese corner-cutting reveals about modernity | Aeon Essays

How to get your kicks in the hermit kingdom of North Korea | Aeon Ideas

Empathy depends on a cool head as much as a warm heart | Aeon Essays

 

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