John Locke (1632–1704) concerned himself primarily with society, where his views are often contrasted with those of Thomas Hobbes, and with epistemology, where he is usually placed alongside David ...

In Friday’s Financial Times, economist and author Tim Harford offers a much-needed, unusually considered response to big data hype, using the reported failure of Google Flu Trends to predict a recent ...

College Composition and Communication publishes research and scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies that supports college teachers in reflecting on and improving their practices in teaching ...

Concerned about the moral laxity of Restoration England, the wealthy landowner and politician Edward Clarke turned to his lifelong friend John Locke for advice about how to raise his son. Out of a ...

The Philosophical Club will be addressed this evening at 8 o'clock in Emerson J, by Professor Mary W. Calkins, of Wellesley College, on "A Truly Radical Empiricism." The meeting will be open to ...

THERE is among the general public a perennial tendency to exalt and honour the man of affairs—the man whose business it is to pose as figurehead and carry through great schemes in the face of the ...