Philosophers have agonized over time-travel paradoxes for more than a century, yet the basic concept rests on the same subtle ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Philosophy is the quiet engine behind everything we think, question, and imagine. From Athens to Kyoto, from Königsberg to ...