In "Evolution as a Religion", Mary Midgley examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role distorts it. She exposes the illogical logic of poor doctrines that shelter themselves behind the prestige of science.

One of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, it provides the clearest statement of the fundamental idea that guided his work: that our knowledge grows by an unending process of trial and error.

Midgley addresses herself to the problems of moral philosophy and psychology, examining the way we think of ourselves and how this affects our lives.

Creativity is fundamental to human experience. In On Creativity David Bohm, the world-renowned scientist, investigates the phenomenon from all sides. This is a remarkable and life-affirming book by one of the most far-sighted thinkers of modern

Previously published: London: Methuen, 1975.

Profound and prophetic for its insights into the impact of capitalism and urbanization, Everyday Life in the Modern World remains a classic work by a towering thinker and essential reading today. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Claire Revol and Rob Shields.

The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases-a story of how lofty epistemic ideals fuse with workaday practices.

In his later work, Freud proposed that the human psyche could be divided into three parts: Id, ego and super-ego. Freud discussed this model in the 1920 essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and fully elaborated upon it in The Ego and the Id (1923), in which he developed it as an alternative to his previous topographic schema (i.e., conscious, unconscious and preconscious).

The id is the completely unconscious, impulsive, childlike portion of the psyche that operates on the "pleasure principle...

Hoe afgunst ons helpt inzicht te krijgen in wie we zijn en wat we echt belangrijk vinden.

Afgunst is een pijnlijke emotie. Als we afgunstig zijn, hebben we het gevoel in de schaduw te staan van een broer of zus, vriend of vriendin, collega of teamgenoot. Anderen lijken het beter getroffen te hebben dan wijzelf en dat is maar moeilijk te verkroppen.

Hoewel iedereen ermee bekend is, wordt afgunst slecht begrepen. In Afgunst onderzoekt filosoof Rob Compaijen deze emotie. Wat is het verband tuss...

Worden wij de eerste soort op aarde die zijn eigen evolutionaire opvolger gaat scheppen?

Recente ontwikkelingen in de biotechnologie, neurowetenschappen en robotica hebben een diepe impact op ons zelfbegrip en dagelijks leven. Wat te denken van genetisch gemodificeerde baby’s? Of van dwarslaesiepatiënten die een computer kunnen aansturen met hun gedachten? Of van androïde robots die werken als prostituees, zoals in de sciencefictionserie Real Humans? Wie we zijn en wat ...