Elephants and personhood
This article in Aeon by Don Ross argues that elephants may be capable of personhood, and that humans should help them develop that capability, if possible, by p...
Category: Thinking Meat Project
Posts from my blog the Thinking Meat Project (2006–2018)
Book review: Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, by Kieran Setiya This book is framed as one philosopher’s search for answers to midlife’s unease. I think it says as...
Book review: Teach Yourself to Meditate
Teach Yourself to Meditate in 10 Simple Lessons: Discover Relaxation and Clarity of Mind in Just Minutes a Day, by Eric Harrison This is far and away the most a...
A season in the dark
One of the most fascinating manifestations of human creativity is the way we embellish our experience of events in the natural world. Who could have predicted t...
Book review: Thinking in Systems
Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella H. Meadows, seemed to me to be something of a missing manual for human thinking. Even though we live in a world of com...
Four kinds of introversion?
One of the most interesting things about personality to me is the range of expression of different traits. My introverted behavior and preferences are similar t...
Troublesome terms in psychology
A group of authors has put together an article that gives an excellent primer on problematic terminology used in psychology and psychiatry. Although it’s ...
Fiction and real life
I ran across this in Umberto Eco’s Confessions of a Young Novelist: The compelling nature of the great tragedies stems from the fact that their heroes, in...
Personality testing and healthcare
This opinion piece by Anna North in the New York Times talks about how medical treatment and disease prevention might be tailored according to a person’s ...
Depression as a physical illness
One of the articles in the recent Nature issue on depression compared research on cancer with research on depression. The former has made big advances over the ...