If there is at least one point about freedom at which all the thinkers in some way agree, it is not but the difficulties involved in the meaning and interpretation of freedom. A long history of philosophical discussions and political discourses lay behind various ideas of freedom; still the evolving...

What is the acoustic difference between Bach’s sonatas and an engine roar in the emotionally blind eye of science? Where is the border that separates so-called music from other, different sounds? To what kind of audible waves do we choose to listen? What are the characteristics of sound waves that...