We've had many postings of late on human nature from guest-blogger Tom Clark and from Marcelo, Stu, and me, so I'll go ahead and continue the thread. I'll first consider the concept of a self, then ...

Gottfried Leibniz — who died 300 years ago this November — worked on many things. But a theme that recurred throughout his life was the goal of turning human law into an exercise in computation. Of ...

Source: Pixabay / Pexels Above all, humans are symbolic creatures. Language itself can be viewed as the use of symbols. Some words, like “car,” might be simple placeholders dispassionately referencing ...