The oldest enigma of humanity

Abstract The most successful theory in all of science--and the basis of one third of our economy--says the strangest things about the world and about us. Can you bel...

How humanity brought about the climate crisis by departing from its evolutionary trajectory 15,000 years ago—and how we can use evolutionary principles to save ourselves from the w...

Abstract Philosophers have been preoccupied with the future from time immemorial. But for egalitarians, the future of humanity constitutes a relatively new frontier....

Abstract A man of huge reputation in his own right and as an alumnus of one of the most sophisticated courts in the history of western Europe, the fifteenth century ...

This book focuses on the imagery and roles of nonhuman animals in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature. Part I examines the animal realm of rebirth in Buddhist doctrine and co...

Abstract Prisons are full of moral experience. Some of these experiences are positive, but many are corrosive, particularly as sentences lengthen and conditions d...

Abstract Those aged 85 and over are currently the fastest growing age group in the U.S. population. This is so new a phenomenon that there is little in historical ex...

Abstract This book argues that literature is a mode of thinking, stories being perhaps the oldest thinking ‘device’ known to humankind. The ways in which literature ...