Twenty-six-year-old Jane Goodall watched a chimpanzee named David Greybeard strip leaves from a grass stem, creating a tool to fish for termites. This moment would redefine our understanding of what ...

Bernard Williams, the 20th-century moral philosopher, once considered the case of a painter who leaves his young family to devote himself to his art. Certainly the painter deserves criticism because ...

What happens when we can’t pay attention? As someone whose goals depend — perhaps too much — on my competence, the thought of not being able to pay attention upsets me. But lapses in attention are ...

Raskolnikov’s tragedy is not murder alone but the belief that intelligence grants moral exemption. Dostoevsky traces how ...