Free Agents
Evolution Makes Us Free!
This book considers the question of free will. Much of its philosophical heavy-lifting (of which there is a lot), consists of reformulating the traditional question,…… Read More »
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré, 'The Last Universalist'
‘A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even…… Read More » 
Zero to Birth
A Book With Many Sides
The average adult human brain weighs about 1.5 kg and accounts for about 2% of the adult body weight. It is very similar in shape…… Read More » 
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe
Cultures of Immanence
One of the strong endorsements for this book states that the author has never published a book that didn’t change how anthropologists think about the…… Read More » 
Knowledge Lost
Precarious Transfers
In 2019, I reviewed The Secular Enlightenment by Margaret Jacob on the relationship between the Enlightenment and secularism, where its emergence was accompanied by widespread…… Read More » 
The Self-Assembling Brain
Who is the Smartest of Us All?
How the brain works and how the neurons link up and develop is something that has intrigued science throughout history. What makes a neural network…… Read More » 
The Self-Assembling Brain
Who is the Smartest of us All?
How the brain works and how the neurons link up and develop is something that has intrigued science throughout history. What makes a neural network…… Read More » 
The Sounds of Life
A Whole New World
It is said that David Attenborough has done more for the environment with his films than any government scheme. For many it has been eye-opening…… Read More » 
Two Greatest Ideas
Just Beyond Our Grasp?
In the summer of 1973 and in advance of my final year at St Andrews, I read Bertrand Russell’s magisterial History of Western Philosophy, which…… Read More » 
Braintrust
What is Morality - a Question More Important Than Ever
To live by a moral code has always been a cornerstone of human interaction and socialisation. In order for people to live together in some…… Read More » 
