Aeon | a world of ideas
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world's most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
Philosophy — Latest - Aeon
Philosophy Essays from Aeon. World-leading thinkers explore life’s big questions and the history of ideas from Socrates to Simone de Beauvoir, political philosophy to philosophy of mind, the Western canon and the non-Western world.
Psychology — Latest - Aeon
Psychology Essays from Aeon. World-leading psychologists, neuroscientists and science writers explore topics from personality to neurodiversity, consciousness and altered states to mental health, identity and more.
Essays — Latest - Aeon
The latest and most popular Essays from Aeon. Longform articles on philosophy, psychology, science, society, history and the arts, written by the world’s leading thinkers.
Science — Latest - Aeon
Science Essays from Aeon. World-leading scientists and science writers explore topics from theories of evolution to theories of consciousness, quantum physics to deep time, chemistry to cosmology.
Does language mirror the mind? An intellectual history - Aeon
Jan 15, 2024 · Anyone who has learned a second language will have made an exhilarating (and yet somehow unsettling) discovery: there is never a one-to-one correspondence in meaning between the words and phrases of one language and another.
Why the son of God story is built on mythology, not history - Aeon
Feb 15, 2024 · Gavin Evans. is a writer whose work has been published in The Guardian, Die Zeit, The Conversation and The New Internationalist, among others.His books include Mapreaders and Multitaskers: Men, Women, Nature, Nurture (2016), The Story of Colour (2017) and Skin Deep: Journeys in the Divisive Science of Race (2019). He lives in London.
Culture — Latest - Aeon
Culture Essays from Aeon on topics that animate human cultures, from stories and literature to rituals and celebrations, art and architecture to our relationship with the natural world.
What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’ - Aeon
Nov 21, 2018 · ‘The theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One,’ wrote Albert Einstein in December 1926. ‘I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice.’. Einstein was responding to a letter from the German physicist Max Born.
How Alan Watts re-imagined religion, desire and life itself - Aeon
Jan 26, 2024 · On 16 November 1973, Joan Watts received a phone call that began in the worst possible way: ‘Are you sitting down?’ Her father, the English writer and philosopher Alan Watts, had died during the previous night, as a storm lashed his home in Marin County, California.