I entered my clinical training as an eager and naive Black graduate student, full of idealism and a desire to serve communities that felt like home. But the realities I encountered in psychiatric ...

“Out of meat, how do you get thought? That’s the grandest question.” So said philosopher Patricia Churchland to Robert Lawrence Kuhn, the producer and host of the acclaimed PBS program, Closer to ...

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” —Martin Luther King Jr. “Stumbling is not falling.” —Malcolm X “In contrast to idealism, whose problem is how to explain ...

From Plato's allegory of the cave to Immanuel Kant's transcendental idealism, the quest to understand "reality" has been the perennial watermark of human intellectual evolution. Yet, even today, this ...

For the average person, any explanation about philosophers and physicists warring over the nature of consciousness — no matter how colorfully described — would probably sound like an embarrassingly ...