Members of a brainy movement across the pond are reviving ancient stoic thought and coupling it with modern psychology to strengthen mental resilience. Their ideas hold fascinating promise for ...

The brain in a jar is a different inquiry than traditional questions about artificial intelligence. The brain in a jar asks whether thinking requires a thinker. The possibility of artificial ...

Philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of the exact nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, and consciousness, and of whether these have a relationship with the ...

An overthinking mind is rarely loud on the outside, most of the noise stays inside, where thoughts keep circling without pause. The mind replays old conversations, imagines different futures, and ...

Gilbert Harman, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, died at his home in Princeton on Nov. 13 after a long illness with Alzheimer’s. He was 83. Harman ...

Philosophy of mind investigates the fundamental character of mental phenomena—consciousness, perception, thought and emotion—and seeks to explain how these states arise from or relate to physical ...