Can you measure the weight of a human soul? No, but that didn’t stop Duncan MacDougall from trying. In the early 20th century ...

College socialized me to dismiss religion. It was part of the academic zeitgeist: Smart people don’t believe that stuff anymore. I became a child of the Enlightenment, a materialist, confident the ...

Laboratories are not usually where people go looking for proof of a soul, yet a growing group of high profile scientists is trying to drag that question under the fluorescent lights. From speculative ...

Steven Pinker’s characterization of my op-ed “Can Science Reckon With the Human Soul?” makes little contact with its text (Letters, Oct. 30). My piece outlined the evidence for terminal lucidity among ...