What would it mean to love a stranger just as you love your closest friends? A philosopher makes a case for ‘love ethics’ ...

I’d always been interested in the stories my parents and grandparents told about their lives in Iraq, which seemed so impossibly distant from my childhood in 1970s London. It was only when I became a ...

We all make wrong decisions, but if you’re a ‘maximiser’ rather than a ‘satisficer’, the regret hurts all the more ...

In the therapy room, I’ve seen how rethinking what we are – and what it means to ‘be dead’ – can lighten our fears ...

Sartre’s phenomenology reveals how a shift from subject to object (and back) is not merely a matter of grammar You meet with a friend to take a walk. Together you stroll through the park, coordinating ...

Can home videos help us to know someone who’s gone? A filmmaker searches for her late mother through archival family footage ...

I was the happiest mother on earth when I gave birth to Maxwell and Riley in March 2017. But I quickly started noticing that Maxwell wasn’t hitting the same developmental milestones as his sister. I ...

The Cynics of ancient Greece were an extraordinarily odd and unpleasant group of individuals. They were hostile to outsiders, and between themselves were hardly pleasant. Antisthenes, who might be ...

If you’re having trouble getting over an ex, you know exactly how painful lingering feelings of love can be. Love for an ex can prompt longing or deep regret. It can disrupt your sleep or appetite, or ...

A vivid dream is like a free virtual-reality experience, no expensive headset required. While your body lies tucked up in bed, your mind can take you to exotic lands and introduce you to amazing ...

It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so. – quotation from the 19th century, likely apocryphal The year was 1993 and, aged 16, I was ...