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A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful... →
Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling... →
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives... →
Families survive the Terrible Twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.... →
I don't doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but... →
I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too... →
I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond to things as we... →
If Inigo Montoya were around now, he wouldn't need to storm the castle to bring his father's murderer to justice; the police would do it for... →
In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so... →
It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such things has an advantage over one... →
Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested... →
More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you... →
Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right... →
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