No, reading literary fiction does not increase empathy: “Fiction simulates the social world and invites us into the minds of characters. This has led various researchers to suggest that reading ...

Alarmed by a drumbeat of shrinking bird and butterfly populations, dying pollinators, and invasive pests and plants, gardeners are embracing the idea that their own landscapes can help. The National ...

Real versus natural might sound like a trick question (is oat milk real or natural, we wonder?), but in the case of historical theatrical movements, “realism” versus “naturalism” is the difference ...

Naturalism is a broad category in philosophy that has its roots in natural philosophy. In Europe, before the scientific Enlightenment, scholars differentiated the world into the natural and ...

THE author of this book is one of the “critical” realists. The difference between a neo-realist and a critical realist would seem to be that the former regards the datum of perception as identical ...