According to philosopher Meghan Sullivan, effective altruism may overlook the moral importance of seeing others as ...

A philosopher offers four case studies in failure Emil Cioran, Mahatma Gandhi, Mishima Yukio and Simone Weil provide “lessons in humility”, says Costica Bradatan ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

Did Western philosophy ruin Earth? A philosopher’s letter of apology to the world Much of western European philosophy, from ancient Greece to the present, has led directly to unspeakable evil ...

In other words, philosophy is not only an intellectual endeavor but a practical and spiritual one: a way of life designed to move practitioners toward the Stoic conception of the good.

A philosopher I know once complained to me that when he tries to explain his ideas to mathematicians, they claim that they don’t understand him, that he’s being unclear, ...

I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect when I opened philosophy professor Clancy Martin’s new book, “How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind.” I’d been meaning to read it ...

This shows, I think, just how conservative philosophy remains, in some respects, as an academic discipline. At a cultural moment when psychedelics are getting a second wind, and even someone as ...

When Italian philosopher and essayist Andrea Colamedici released Ipnocrazia: Trump, Musk e La Nuova Architettura Della Realtà (Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality), he ...

Alice Gregory reports on L. A. Paul, a philosophy professor at Yale and the author of “Transformative Experience,” who has written about how there is no rational way to decide whether to have ...