Life can be truly rotten, but words are among the consolations available to us. We spend a lot of time marvelling at works of ...

Visual metaphors and intuitive explanations abound in this entertaining, informative and accessible exploration of philosophy ...

I find myself beginning to realize that the philosophy that I studied, from Descartes to Hume to Kant to Russell to logical positivism and the early Wittgenstein, and perhaps the late Wittgenstein of ...

Professor of Philosophy and Theology also adds that “The immense impact of Islamic philosophy on western philosophy during the medieval period influenced virtually all of the philosophical disciplines ...

Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

The Statue of Socrates at the Academy of Athens. Work of Leonidas Drosis | C messier/via Wikimedia Commons/CC by SA 4.0 Where did Socrates, the foundational figure of Western philosophy, get the ...

Does all our deepest thinking about life, the universe and everything merely show our deepest biases? Is the philosophical ground that grounds everything from morality to physics deeply mired in a ...

When he was a child, films and television shows in the western genre seemed all about “the triumph of good over evil,” writes Thomas Wartenberg. Now, though, as a professor of philosophy at Mount ...

The ‘this-worldliness’ of Western thought, which traces its roots to Greek thought, and the ‘other-worldliness’ of Indian thought, was first revealed in an account of a meeting of Socrates with some ...