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 ...

The most life-changing books can seem like they have always been there. What they say may seem obvious, once we’ve read them. But that’s only because they’ve reshaped how we look at things. The French ...

Gabriela Ramos is Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO. Éric Fourneret is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Université Catholique de Lille, France. 16 November 2023 The ...

Hosted by Shawn and Claire Spainhour, Philosophy for Lunch is a newly launched weekly podcast that makes philosophy, psychology, and the history of ideas genuinely accessible — without dumbing them ...

Socrates, of all the philosophers in the history of mankind, was probably the biggest pain in the ass. He believed argument itself was the core to understanding anyone, including himself. He didn’t ...

Stephen Meyer discusses The Story of Everything, exploring science, philosophy, and intelligent design ahead of its April 30 theatrical release.

“Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and again different waters flow,” said pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitu, emphasizing the trickiness of navigating our way through an ...

Arnold Brooks, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, came to Agnes Callard’s office hours every week to talk about Aristotle. At the last session of the quarter, in the spring of 2011, they ...

This past spring, the philosopher Richard J. Bernstein taught his final two classes at the New School for Social Research, in New York, where he had been a professor since 1989. One was a course on ...

IN this book the reader is offered a fair substitute for the impressions he might expect to receive from a general college course in the history of thought. But it is more than likely that an ...