Philosophy is a uniquely reflexive activity. It tends to swallow any question about itself and make it into just more philosophy. Other disciplines are different. The history of physics is not physics ...

Prof. Emeritus Howard Stein, a renowned philosopher and historian of physics at the University of Chicago, died March 8 at his home in Hyde Park. He was 95. A trained philosopher and mathematician, ...

For a decade, Duke's Project Vox has elevated the roles of women whose impact on philosophy has been hidden or buried Until recently, a philosophy doctoral student looking for a dissertation subject ...

The Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University is distinguished by a long-standing tradition of pluralism both of methodology and interest. In recent years, we have gained national and ...

History and philosophy of education chart how societies imagine, organise and justify the cultivation of human capacities. The historical strand ranges from nineteenth-century national accounts and ...

In 1926, Will Durant brought out “The Story of Philosophy,” an engagingly written account of what great thinkers from Plato to William James thought about life, the universe and everything. Its ...

This essay is taken from the foreword of George Caffentzis’s Civilizing Money: Hume, his Monetary Project and the Scottish Enlightenment. Caffentzis puts history back into chronology. The British ...

A well-stocked Netflix queue can go a long way toward pure and utter happiness, but sometimes there's still something missing. For those moments, it can help to fall back on the wisdom of history's ...