As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years…

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning…

— Paul Kurtz

“The brain works in a holistic, cooperative way that makes our basest desire or most abject fear as expressive of who we are as…

— David Amerland

“In order to decide, judge; in order to judge, reason; in order to reason, decide (what to reason about).”

— Philip Johnson-Laird

“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to…

— Steven Pinker

“Reality is not a thought experiment.”

— David Amerland

“[Mood allocates] investments of time, effort, resources, and risk taking to maximize Darwinian fitness in situations of varying propitiousness. High and low moods adjust…

— Randolph M. Nesse

In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that one had…

— Gino Severini

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as…

— Nathaniel Branden

The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of…

— Elliot W. Eisner

“In order to build a truly wise society devoid of any kind of existential crisis, it is imperative that the individuals foster a healthy…

— Abhijit Naskar

I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information — is in fact…

— Eric Schmidt

The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms…

— Francisco Varela

“The moment you establish a line of communication between two points, you subtly change both. That is also true for the way the brain…

— David Amerland

Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology I mean,…

— Jerry Fodor

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather,…

— Karel Capek