You have probably watched Robert Downey Jr. doing some really impressive mathematical calculations and spinning some shrewd logic to catch some bad guys in Victorian London. That is, if you’ve seen ...

The “mirror argument” occurs when people call out flaws in a partner that they unconsciously struggle with. If partners ...

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Fairly quickly, I developed a reputation, a friend told me, for being bad at close reading. “What is close reading?” a professor asked us on the first day of a seminar on modern American poetry. I ...

The counter-argument is that a person can, by their actions, forfeit human rights, and that murderers forfeit their right to life. Another example will ... but who develop signs of insanity ...

People also believed, using what they called examples ancient and modern—and ... a keen sense of human weakness and a knack for clever argument, colder than we would think, and more of a pol ...

Research aiming to answer the great mystery of how consciousness arises is continuing to spark debate, with arguments over ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on May 15 in three cases challenging an executive order President Donald Trump ...

Researchers often use moral dilemmas to probe the contours of human moral intuitions, but such studies typically take place ...