Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: Hello, I'm Alan Saunders, and this week on The Philosopher's Zone we're looking at ...

The last in our series on the senses explores the nature of the sense of touch. This is a Self-assessment article and comes with a self-assessment test. Abstract This final article in our series on ...

The Philosophical Quarterly is one of the most highly regarded and established academic journals in philosophy. In an age of increasing specialism, it remains committed to publishing high quality ...

Perceiving a simple touch may depend as much on memory, attention, and expectation as on the stimulus itself, according to new research on monkeys by Howard Hughes Medical Institute international ...

Sensation-seeking, also called thrill-seeking or excitement-seeking, is the tendency to pursue new and different sensations, feelings, and experiences. The trait describes people who chase novel, ...

We could learn a thing or two from the ancient Greeks’ understanding of suffering. By Haider Warraich Dr. Warraich is a cardiologist. The United States uses a third of the world’s opioids but a fifth ...

We hear a great deal about self-esteem. But what is self-esteem, really? Self-esteem is our opinion of ourselves, based on others' perceptions. So, how is it that we all, or at least many of us, have ...

Nociceptive pain in response to peripheral noxious stimuli, and inflammatory pain resulting from tissue damage, serve as warnings that normal bodily function cannot resume until the stimulus abates or ...