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Almost everyone agrees we are on an unsustainable path. Disputes are about just how unsustainable that path is. What few people grasp is the obvious implication: what is unsustainable will not be sustained....
Blog #5 of the Psychology and its Antecedents series As we look to the launch of a new year – a clean slate to create happiness – a review of the year just finishing seems to have exacted a toll...
It’s always difficult to step outside one’s comfort zone. In the case of this book, the process of getting ready to step outside took a decade. This may seem unreasonably long, since the step...
When I was growing up China was one of the world’s poorest countries; today its economy is the largest in the world when measured by purchasing power parity. How did this transformation occur? This...
Most people are familiar with the idea that there is an interaction between physical and mental health. Living with severe chronic illness or disability can have very marked psychological impact, and...
Despite the increasing number of persons fleeing across borders due to widespread violence in situations of armed conflict, there has long been a misconception that these individuals are not ‘refugees’...
What makes us human? What (if anything) sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed us back to our own animal nature....
Between 1780 and 1918 over 1 million petitions were sent to the UK House of Commons. These petitions, which addressed over 33,000 issues, were signed by 165 million people. The colossal scale of petitioning...
Thomas Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962, over 60 years ago. The book is principally remembered for the role it attributes to paradigm change in the development of science. ...
The main claim of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press 2023) is that the Critique of Pure Reason should be read as the doctrine of method of...
Dorothea Lange, photographer. Ex-slave and wife on steps of plantation house now in decay. Greene County, Georgia (loc.gov) In my book, Old Age and American Slavery, I explore perceptions of old...
St Andrew’s Anglican church, Tangier Can religions change? Historically, the evidence is overwhelming that they do. But for believers standing against this has long been the notion of revelation...
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