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Nautilus

Arts, science, and travel writer Nick Hilden contributes to the likes of the Washington Post, Scientific American, Esquire, Popular Science, National Geographic, and more. You can follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/nickhilden">@nickhilden</a> or Instagram at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nick.hilden/">@nick.hilden</a>.

Nick Hilden

Philosophy

The Philosophy of Tyranny

Jim Davies is a professor at the Department of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. He is co-host of the award-winning podcast Minding the Brain. His latest book is Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science of a Better You.

Jim Davies

People Really Want to Be Good

John Steele is the publisher and editorial director of Nautilus.

John Steele

The Past Is a Ghost and the Future a Fantasy

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and the author of numerous books, including <a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dark-ecology/9780231177528/">Dark Ecology</a> (Columbia University Press), <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674034853">Ecology Without Nature</a> (Harvard University Press), and <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551755/being-ecological/">Being Ecological</a>, from which this article is excerpted.

Timothy Morton

Your Mind Is Part of the Ecosystem

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).