The revolutions in Russia and China were both, at least ostensibly, Marxist in character. The Second World War turned out in favour of the Allies partly because Hitler, blinded by his hatred of ...

Medieval alchemists, and more recently Harry Potter, spent time seeking the Philosopher’s Stone. It was thought to be the elixir of life, bestowing long life and perhaps even immortality. Fifty years ...

By contrast, modern science and the analytic strain in modern philosophy seek to create a technical language to depict reality–and thus deprive themselves of the language they need to explain what ...

Since the time of Descartes philosophers have sought to establish what justifies true beliefs by examining the epistemic conditions immediately underlying knowledge claims. As critics of this ...

Contemporary philosophy has a problem. No one outside the philosophical tribe seems to be listening. The most abstract of the humanities, philosophy grows ever more marginal in academe. As core ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

Academe’s specialization has left John Stuart Mill out in the cold Contemporary academic philosophy is riven by a great divide: Either you adhere to a Continental perspective identified with Friedrich ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is a challenge in teaching early modern philosophy to balance historical faithfulness to the arguments and concerns of early modern ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Almost 2,500 years after his death, Socrates continues to fascinate. The Greek thinker is seen, by some, as the father of philosophy, a martyr for the ...