In Search of Enlightenment

A political philosopher's reflections on politics, philosophy, science, medicine and law. "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity" (Immanuel Kant, 1784).

Sunday, December 14, 2025

The Human Mind (!?!)

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Came across this fascinating study on the tendency for perceptual and judgmental standards to "creep", leading us to perceive thi...

Sunday, December 07, 2025

AI Chatbots Swaying Political Opinions

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Nature News reports on two new studies ( here and here ) concerning how AI chat bots can influence voters. Of course, many things can inf...

Sunday, November 30, 2025

End of Fall Teaching Term

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Thus ends another busy teaching term. This fall I taught my usual "Intro to Political Theory" course to 260 second year student...

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Aging and Disease — David Gems / Serious Science

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Great video, and the topic of focus for the next two weeks of my seminar "Science and Justice". I have spent the past decade of my...

Thursday, October 16, 2025

My "Grilled Cheese" Good News/Bad News Talk (tomorrow in Kingston)

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Looking forward to having an engaging conversation with 165 seniors tomorrow on the ethics of longevity science. In my 60 minute talk I off...

Saturday, October 04, 2025

Hobbies and Brain Aging

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Nature news has the scoop on this fascinating study on creative hobbies and brain aging. A sample from the news item: Overall, all four cr...

Thursday, October 02, 2025

Sleep Science

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Nature news has a nice item on the latest from the science of sleep . I would place the science of sleep on my top 5 areas of science to fo...

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