Many philosophers have noticed the similarities between environmental damage and the puzzle of the self-torturer.

Reflections by late-Roman Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca, offer a remarkably contemporary ...

In A Nutshell A philosopher at UC San Diego argues that the near-universal view in academic philosophy that wrongdoers cannot have a right to be forgiven: is wrong. His central argument: promises ...

Philosophers could help policy makers to ask the right questions. But to give this practical help, academic philosophy must take lessons from open science In a widely-discussed recent essay for the ...

While it’s not as central to our daily lives today, philosophy has played a role in advancing many of the world’s biggest developments. So it’s no surprise that ancient philosophers and some of the ...

This exchange makes professional philosophers titter, because their daily work is far removed from the production of sage utterances. But the request for “sayings” was not an unreasonable one. The ...

“As the various translation projects got underway in Spain and in Southern Europe, it became obvious that Christian as well as Jewish philosophy had much to gain and to question by the enormous ...