Library
A curated set of reading and video resources for those who want to delve deeper into each event
How do we know what it is to be good?
What can Aristotle teach us about the routes to happiness?
How should you choose the right right thing to do?
How Philippa Foot set her mind against prevailing moral philosophy
What is better – a happy life or a meaningful-one?
Why it is better not to aim at being morally perfect
Helping others might feel good but is it really good for you?
The wisdom of history
- History is always political, and contest over it is a good thing
- Far-distant days: the past has a dizzying power to ground us
- If history was more like science, would it predict the future?
- Dare we compare American slavery to the Holocaust?
- The role of history in a society afflicted by short-termism
- How should you interpret historical analogies in the popular press?
Insight or illusion?
- Is psychedelics research closer to theology than to science?
- Psychedelics work by violating our models of self and the world
- New psychedelics research is on a knife edge of meaning
- Psychedelics can’t be tested using conventional clinical trials
- The power of insight: Psychedelics and the emergence of false beliefs
- The insights psychedelics give you aren’t always true
