Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

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

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

When you try to translate any kind of real-life problem into a neat logical form, you're almost always simplifying it. We need a kind of blend - we need to use not just tools of logic, which are important and valuable - I'm not denying that, but also tools of judgement, and of inductive and abductive reasoning which can also inform.

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true, inner selves and the outside world is pervasive, but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.