When comparing the time scales of genetic and cultural evolution, it is useful to bear in mind that we today - every one of us - can easily understand many ideas that were simply unthinkable by the geniuses in our grandparents' generation!

Philosophers might care to ask themselves ... how often they are accomplices in increasing the audience for a second-rate article simply because their introduc…

Experience teaches...that there is no such thing as a thought experiment so clearly presented that no philosopher can misinterpret it...

People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are the only species that ha…