Many Renaissance artists sought to perfect the human form, viewing our bodies as vessels of divine creation and inspiration.

The boundaries between internal experience and the external world blur in this immersive animated rendering of autism ...

Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon Media that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.

is a senior lecturer in political theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written two books about pragmatism, and is writing one on Ralph Waldo Emerson and another on psychoanalysis.

is a historian of Renaissance philosophy with a focus on Florentine Neoplatonism. She is currently the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the Department of History at Harvard University.

Psychologists have known about the ‘halo effect’ for ages. New research suggests the power of language can help explain it The halo effect isn’t confined to human traits, either. This cognitive ...

In our age of certainty and dogma, we would all do well to learn from the philosophy of the ancient Greco-Roman sceptics We live in a paradoxical time: despite the proliferation of critical thinking ...

The 16th-century ‘spiritual rock-star’ shows how seeing your soul as a castle can be a source of strength and consolation Courtesy the BnF, Paris ...

Sudden mood changes can be unsettling, but getting to know them will help you regain balance and, if needed, find support If experience is a song, mood is the bassline. As your thoughts and sensations ...