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

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

The philosophers have been taking their own temperatures. Less metaphorically, a couple of well-known professional philosophers at the Australian National University in Canberra conducted a survey of ...

Yuval Noah Harari, though trained as a historian, has become one of the world’s most widely read public thinkers. His ...

At a Beyoncé concert last summer, I found myself thinking about the right-wing philosopher Harry V. Jaffa. As the singer ...

Among Velázquez, El Bosco, and Goya, Noë reflects on how art changes us, interrupts our perceptual routines, and reveals that ...

The ancient Greeks had a variety of theories about extraterrestrial life. The philosopher Anaxagoras believed that aliens ...

The Ask a Philosopher table appears daily at Suburban Station this week while the American Philosophical Association conference is in Philadelphia. Ian Olasov (left), a part-time philosophy professor ...