Twenty-six-year-old Jane Goodall watched a chimpanzee named David Greybeard strip leaves from a grass stem, creating a tool to fish for termites. This moment would redefine our understanding of what ...

What happens when we can’t pay attention? As someone whose goals depend — perhaps too much — on my competence, the thought of not being able to pay attention upsets me. But lapses in attention are ...

Jonathan Kwan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi and was previously the Markkula Center’s Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics. Views ...

Raskolnikov’s tragedy is not murder alone but the belief that intelligence grants moral exemption. Dostoevsky traces how ...