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Nautilus

John Steele is the publisher and editorial director of Nautilus.

John Steele

Philosophy

Hope Catches a Tailwind

Kevin Berger is the editor at large of Nautilus.

Kevin Berger

You Can Achieve the Ideal Version of Yourself

<a href="https://www.evameijer.nl/en/indexen.html">Eva Meijer</a> is a philosopher working at the University of Amsterdam, a writer, and a visual artist. Their books include <a href="https://www.aup.nl/nl/book/9789048564422/multispecies-dialogues">Multispecies Dialogues: Doing Philosophy with Animals, Children, the Sea and Others</a> and <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044035/animal-languages/">Animal Languages</a>. Meijer is also a member of the <a href="https://themultispeciescollective.cargo.site/">Multispecies Collective</a>.

Eva Meijer

The Woman Who Saw Birds as Individuals

Brian Gallagher is an associate editor at Nautilus. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/bsgallagher/" rel="noopener">@bsgallagher</a>.

Brian Gallagher

We Are a Part of Infinity

A. Kendra Greene is the author and illustrator of No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity and The Museum of Whales You Will Never See. A writer and book artist, her work is also published in Atlas Obscura, The Guardian, Orion, and The Wall Street Journal. It has come into being with fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, Dobie Paisano, UNC special collections, Library Innovation Lab at Harvard, and The American Library in Paris.

A. Kendra Greene

I Can Feel Your Human Fingers

Hedda Hassel Mørch is an associate professor in philosophy at Inland Norway University and previously a postdoc with the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU, researching the nature of consciousness. She is the author of <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/nonphysicalist-theories-of-consciousness/BD11AFA6D1ABF9EAD3597880C7E15DDB">Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness</a>.

Hedda Hassel Mørch

Is Everyone the Same Person?

Steve Paulson is the executive producer of Wisconsin Public Radio’s nationally syndicated show <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/">To the Best of Our Knowledge</a>. He’s the author of Atoms and Eden: Conversations on Religion and Science. You can find his podcast about psychedelics, Luminous, <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/series/luminous">here</a>.

Steve Paulson

Argue Your Way to a Fuller Life

Helen De Cruz is a philosopher who works and teaches at Saint Louis University, where she holds the Danforth Chair in the Humanities. She is the author of many books and papers, most recently <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232126/wonderstruck?srsltid=AfmBOoryC5WU3DKxpfxyetzLSgyvT2Hq-jEaFIBpAM6aC7HKPSzw11Sf">Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think</a> with Princeton University Press (2024).

Helen De Cruz

Meet My Pal, the Ancient Philosopher

Alan Lightman earned his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology and is the author of seven novels, including the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams. His nonfiction includes The Accidental Universe, and most recently, The Miraculous from the Material. He is currently a professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. He is the host of the public television series Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science.

Alan Lightman

The Power of Small Wonderments

Jake Currie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

Jake Currie

How Reality Shapes Our Language—and Vice Versa

David Krakauer is the president and William H. Miller professor of complex systems at the Santa Fe Institute.

David Krakauer

The Reality Ouroboros

Caitlin L. Chandler is a writer who lives in Berlin. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, the Washington Post Magazine, and elsewhere.