Specifically, physicists and philosophers tend to conflate what it means for something to exist and what it means for something to happen — treating occurrences as if they exist. Once that distinction ...

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 ...

The Greek word for "excellence" was mistranslated into Latin as "manliness," and eventually became our word "virtue." ...

A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell ...

Amanda Askell, a member of Anthropic's technical team and a trained philosopher, shared some pro-tips for getting the most of ...

The study of philosophy is a pillar of a liberal education. It is an opportunity for students to examine their lives and deepen their knowledge of existence. It would be hard to find a philosophy ...

Philosophy professors in the United States have all heard of Confucius and the Daoist Laozi. Many have also heard of their approximate contemporaries in ancient China: the later Confucians Mencius and ...

Tuesday night, in the fourth Republican debate, Sen. Marco Rubio decided to make a point about the state of wages, education, and employment in America by comparing welders with philosophers. “For the ...