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The Life of Zebulon PikeIn Citizen Explorer, historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldier and explorer, who rivaled contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Through Pike's life, Orsi examines how American nationalism thinned as it stretched west, from the Jeffersonian idealism on the Atlantic to a...

A Transforming Vision of Human IntelligenceEver since Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test more than a century ago, we have thought of intelligence as fixed from birth and unalterable-as genetically programmed and immutable as eye color. If our IQ was 115 at the age of eighteen, it would be 115 at age thirty-two and at age seventy-two. But as...

Hybrid Theories and Modern MetaethicsA recent trend in metaethics has been to reject the apparent choice between pure cognitivism, where moral (and other normative) judgments are understood as representational or belief-like states, and pure non-cognitivism, where they are understood as non-representational or desire-like states. Rather,...

How Soviet Jehovah&'s Witnesses Defied Communism and Lived to Preach About ItEmily B. Baran offers a gripping history of how a small, American-based religious community, the Jehovah&'s Witnesses, found its way into the Soviet Union after World War II, survived decades of brutal persecution, and emerged as one of the region&'s fastest growing...

The Language of Public ApologyPeople do bad things. They misspeak, mislead, and misbehave. They lie, cheat, steal, and kill. Often, afterward, they apologize. But what makes a successful apology? Why does Joe Biden&'s 2007 apology for referring to Barack Obama as "e;articulate and bright"e; succeed, whereas Mel Gibson&'s 2006 apology for...

A Slim GuideOrigins of Language: A Slim Guide offers a concise and accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language. Non-human animals communicate in simple ways: they may be able to form simple concepts, to feel some limited empathy for others, to cooperate to some extent, and to engage in mind-reading....