Philosophy has always been humanity’s go-to guide for tackling life’s biggest questions. Be it pondering the meaning of ...

For those of us who may not have given philosophy a second thought because we associate it with mind-numbing linguistic analysis or impossibly convoluted compound German words, Kreeft assures us that ...

For nearly two millennia, a library entombed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius remained silent. Among its shelves—now ...

The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period. Starting in the late eighth century, with the renewal of ...

Socrates is the most important exponent of Western philosophy, his ideas forming a continuum from Ancient Greece to today's ...

Nigel Warburton is a senior lecturer for Britain's Open University, a service originated by the BBC to provide education via television to adults who had not gone on to higher education. A Little ...

The History of Philosophy Group meets regularly to hear and discuss work in progress by various faculty members and graduate students working in the history of philosophy at CU Boulder, including ...

Life can be truly rotten, but words are among the consolations available to us. We spend a lot of time marvelling at works of art, how inspired and clever they can be, how they can express something ...

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, ...

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 ...

Established in 1846 as a private institution, UB became part of the SUNY system in 1962, and the Philosophy Department is one of the oldest in the University. In the twentieth century the Department ...