Terrorism has returned to the streets of Northern Ireland. In the years after the 1998 Real IRA bombing of Omagh, which killed 29 people, violent dissident Republican groups have re-emerged as a major security threat to a region that has been denied peace, stability, and prosperity for too long. Tho[...]

This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded. The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and evidence-based researc[...]

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In his acclaimed book "The End of Science, " John Horgan ignited a firestorm of controversy about the limits of knowledge in a wide range of sciences. Now in "The Undiscovered Mind" he focuses on the single most important scientific enterprise of all -- the effor[...]

Reports and dispatches from Ireland's finest writers: the first-ever anthology of Irish reportage. Alongside its world-famous tradition of great fiction, Ireland has a less well known but thrilling tradition of reportage: journalism, dispatches and eyewitness accounts. From Elizabeth Bowen to Colm T[...]

War is a fact of human nature. As long as we exist, it exists. That's how the argument goes.

But longtime "Scientific American" writer John Horgan disagrees. Applying the scientific method to war leads Horgan to a radical conclusion: biologically speaking, we are just as likely to be pea[...]

Human cognition is soft. It is too flexible, too rich, and too open-ended to be captured by hard (precise, exceptionless) rules of the sort that can constitute a computer program. In "Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology," Horgan and Tienson articulate and defend a new view of cognition. I[...]