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Why women stray Evolutionary theory says men stray to increase offspring, but what motivates women? Enter the mate-switching hypothesis David Buss AEON, Oct. 2017 Photo by Getty David Buss is professor of psychology at University of Texas, Austin. His work has been published widely in journals and he is the author of several books, including The Evolution of Desire: Strategies..

Science & NatureKnow Thy FuturistCathy O'Neil Sep 25, 2017 Boston Review Many visions of the future proliferate in Silicon Valley. Which one is worth fighting for? Have you heard? Someday we will live in a perfect society ruled by an omnipotent artificial intelligence, provably and utterly beneficial to mankind. That is, if we don’t all die once the machines gain consciousnes..

The Innocnece of Things:A Conversation with Karl Ove Knausgaard by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Srikanth Reddy in Dialogue The Point, October, 2017 The following is an edited transcript of a conversation between Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard and poet and scholar Srikanth Reddy that was hosted by the Seminary Co-op Bookstores and took place at the Logan Center for the Arts ..

ObservanceEmbracing Aristotle at Yom KippurWhen we recite Unetaneh Tokef at High Holiday services, we take a lesson from the ancient Greeks about what to do when life gives us lemonsBy Eylon Aslan-LevyTabletOctober 7, 2016 • 12:00 AM What would Aristotle make of Yom Kippur? He would probably struggle with the Hebrew, and be bemused by the strange ways of the Jews. But at..

The Lost Purpose of Learning by Joseph Clair First Thing9 . 26 . 17 In the autumn of AD 386, a thirty-two-year-old academic superstar named Aurelius Augustinus made a radical move: He resigned his position as imperial professor of rhetoric in Milan and retired early. The position, as prestigious as an endowed chair of government at Harvard today, represented the pinnacle of int..

Return of the city-state Nation-states came late to history, and there’s plenty of evidence to suggest they What will be the best, and worst, consequences of the decline of nation-states?Jamie Bartlett Aeon Sept. 2017 Jamie Bartlett is director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos in London, and has written numerous pamphlets and reports on ..

On the Origin of Cooperation Kevin N. Laland The New Atlantis, Number 52, Spring 2017, pp. 70-85. You take a flight from New York to London. Thousands and perhaps millions of people — including ticket agents, baggage handlers, security personnel, air traffic controllers, pilots, and flight attendants, but behind the scenes also airline administrators, meteorologists, eng..

The mathematical world James Franklin The Aeon 15 Sept. 2017 James Franklin is professor of mathematics at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. His book An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics is out this month. Some philosophers think maths exists in a mysterious other realm. They’re wrong. Look around: you can see it What is mathematics about? We know wha..

“The Alchemist Discovers Phosphorous” by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1771 What, exactly, do philosophers do? 0 --> 0"> JONATHAN CLARKTLSSeptember 5, 2017 0 --> -1 --> What, exactly, do philosophers do? Are they primarily engaged in inward-looking technical debates, or are they the leading innovators who frame wider projects? In this elegantly written and insightful survey of s..

Untangling the Complicated, Controversial Legacy of Sigmund Freud By Cody Delistraty The CUT September 5, 2017 09/05/2017 8:00 am Photo: Bourgeron Collection/RDA/Hulton Archive/Getty Images On January 24, 1895, in a letter that was kept unpublished for nearly 90 years, Sigmund Freud wrote nervously about a dangerous experiment he was planning to embark upon. “Now only one mo..