Articles and Essays


Articles and Essays

How Evil Happens

Piece written for Aeon on the Syndrome E hypothesis: "Is Neuroscience Getting Closer to Explaining Evil Behavior?"

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Thoughts Made Visible

Written for issue on "States of Mind" of Lapham�s Quarterly 

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A Chateau in the Loire Valley

For Architectural Digest

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Body and Soul

Written for Lapham´s Quarterly issue on "Flesh".

Neuro-News

Response to the 2016 Edge Question: What do you consider the most interesting scientific news? What makes it important?

 

Paris, Searching for Peace

Written for New York Daily News after the Paris attacks of November 13th, 2015.

 

The Passage from Normal to Dark

A testimonial written for Politico on the day after the Paris attacks of November 13th.

 

Lectures and Academic

Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction

Review of book by Charles Wolfe, for HOPOS.

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A New Republic of Letters?

Talk given at conference on Global Humanities, Italian Cultural Institute, New York.

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Humoural Bodies and Balanced Minds

Keynote talk at conference "Situating Mental Illness: Between Scientific Certainty and Personal Narrative", ICI, Berlin, April 29th, 2011

 

 

Humoural Bodies and Balanced Minds

Keynote talk at conference "Situating Mental Illness: Between Scientific Certainty and Personal Narrative", ICI, Berlin, April 29th, 2011

 

La qu�te de l��quilibre: �me, vertus, humeurs

Piece on the humours published in the French journal Corps (March 2010).

 

"Just Life in a Nutshell": Humours as Common Sense

Paper given at a one-day symposium on "Folk Epistemologies", at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, NY, on October 26th, 2007. Published in The Philosophical Forum (Fall 2008

Metarepresentation

Response to the 2015 Edge Foundation Annual Question: What do you think about machines that think?

 

The Rights of Spring

An essay on nostalgia, for Indian Quarterly (issue 3:2, January-March 2015).

 

Indian Summer

A review of John Adams´s opera A Flowering Tree, in Indian Quarterly, Vol 2, Issue 4.

As A Lute Out Of Tune: Robert Burton�s Melancholy

Piece written for The Public Domain Review.  

The Curry Soup

Written for the "roundtable" blog of Lapham´s Quarterly.