If signed into law, a bill recently passed by the State Legislature would permit students to opt out of coursework that goes against their conscience or religious beliefs.

Legislation in at least eight states would expand the rights of doctors, nurses, hospitals and even insurance companies to refuse to provide or pay for care — from contraception and ...

Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious ...

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When it was first reported last year that abortion was being “decriminalised”, people may have felt some surprise. Hadn’t it been decriminalised for nearly 60 years?

It sounds like an oxymoron, but we could find the origin of consciousness in our brains using the brains of those who are unconscious.

Research suggests that consciousness could extend far beyond just humans—every cellular creature in the universe, no matter how big or small, could be conscious, too. Studies show that single-cell ...

And if I may offer a personal recommendation for our consciousness diet, consume more material that generates love, ...

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

Florida’s HB 641, which targets gender identity in the workplace, puts employers between a rock and a hard place, attorneys suggest.

This is the fifth in a series of posts excerpted from my book, The Four Realms of Existence. (Read posts one, two, three and four.) The key premise of the book is that everything about a human being, ...

While contemporary defenders of state paternalism offer some formidable cases for it, Bill Glod suggests in this essay how liberals and libertarians can offer powerful responses.