How people experience beauty vs. what philosophers claimed

Mathematicians Versus Philosophers in Recent Work on Mathematical Beauty

Review of “The People Vs Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It)” by Jamie Bartlett

The People Vs Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It) by Jamie Bartlett. New York: Dutton, 2018. 256 pp., £8.99 (p/b), ISBN 978-1785039065.

What is Beauty?

So what is beauty? First let me perhaps surprise you by stating that beauty can be defined numerically:1.6180339887. That is beauty that is the golden ratio (fig 1). It was described by the Pythagorean mathematicians, as they kept seeing this ratio in things regarded as beautiful, and it was first written down by Euclid, and can be expressed either as a linear relationship or as a shape, in eit...

Investigating how everyday people experience security

How we predict what other people are going to do.

We present a framework for discussing two major aspects of social cognition: the ability to predict what another person is like and what another person is likely to do next. In the first part of this review, we discuss studies that concern knowledge of others as members of a group and as individuals with habitual dispositions. These include studies of group stereotypes and of individual reputat...