"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Philosophy quite literally means “love of wisdom.” What book-lover wouldn’t want to dive deeper into that ...

Many adults view picture books as simply a great way to get their kids to sleep. And they sure are good at that! I remember many pleasant hours getting lost in a picture books that I was reading to my ...

A women reads a book under the sun in the Luxembourg gardens in Paris, on July 1, 2010 during a heatwave as temperatures soared all over the country. AFP PHOTO MIGUEL MEDINA (Photo credit should read ...

Labor Day Weekend is upon us. That means back to school for some 50 million U.S. students—and their teachers. Most likely, lesson plans, at least the early ones, are ready to go. If you teach an age ...

Join us at the Philosophers' Book Club to discuss Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net. As both a philosopher and a novelist, Murdoch wanted to exploit the advantages 'of having a mind on the borders of ...

Learning is painful, pleasant and, above all, communal.

Long-dead thinkers from Socrates to Nietzsche are the latest hot property when it comes to self-help books. But can they really make effective gurus, asks Neil Armstrong. Can a thinker who last plied ...

Pythagoras refused, on principle, to flee across a field of beans; he was caught and slaughtered. Hypathia, one of antiquity's most prominent female thinkers, fell into the hands of angry Christians, ...