Given the growing denigration of the human person, seen in matters such as the public acceptance of abortion on demand, and now euthanasia (the 'right' to die),…

The number of lives ruined through addiction to drugs is staggering.  But the physical addiction is only one part of the problem, and it seems that release…

Daniel Dennett's popularity has always mystified me.  A public intellectual who denies that thinking is anything more than an illusion - a biochemical epiphenomenon that our bodies…

The primary interest of contemporary Continental philosophy, according to Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, is the study of man as 'a self-interpreting animal.'  While most people believe that…

"I’m a neuroscientist and professor of neurosurgery. The mind-brain question haunts me. Neurosurgeons alter the brain on a daily basis, and what we find doesn’t fit the…