Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data.

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.

Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. . . . William's book combines real history and fictional constructs to tell a revealing story that makes us reconsider the meaning of familiar concepts.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.