The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates By Dr. Massimo Pigliucci / 08.23.2017 Professor of...
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Explore humanity’s efforts to understand reality and determine how life should be lived. These histories follow philosophers and traditions across cultures while examining the arguments that shaped ethics, knowledge, politics, religion, science, and human identity.
Image by Getty By Dr. Charlie Huenemann / 11.24.2107 Professor of Philosophy Utah State University We all know what...
Former gangster Lucky Luciano teaches an old dog. Rome, 1949. Photo by Bettmann/Getty By Dr. Suzanne Cope /...
Image courtesy of Light show via Wikimedia Commons, and edited by Shannon Sands By Dr. Mark English / 11.11.2017 Philosopher In a recent...
When the ringing of a bell comes to mean something more. Maisei Raman/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Edward Wasserman /...
Photo by Ahron de Leeuw/Flickr By Dr. Justin E.H. Smith / 06.01.2016 Professor of History and Philosophy of...
Detail from the Bocage map of 1784 depicting Ancient Athens / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Massimo Pigliucci / 11.03.2017...
Zeno vs. Epicurus By Dr. Massimo Pigliucci / 11.03.2017 Professor of Philosophy City University of New York “The thought...
By Dr. Eva Del Soldato / 11.06.2017 Assistant Professor of Romance Languages University of Pennsylvania It is...
The Cassini mission was a direct consequence of Einstein’s thought experiments. Photo JPL/NASA By Dr. Subrena E. Smith...
Consciousness is indeed a hard nut to crack Photo by PIVISO/Flickr By Dr. Keith Frankish / 09.20.2016 Visiting...
By Dr. Timothy Williamson / 11.15.2016 Wykeham Professor of Logic University of Oxford Imagine a heap of...
Detail from La Liberté Triomphante (1792), showing Liberty brandishing a thunderbolt in one hand and a Phrygian cap on...
By Dr. Joel Alden Schlosser / 04.17.2017 Assistant Professor of Political Science Bryn Mawr College Schlosser, Joel...
Photo by Bettmann, Getty By Dr. Julian Baggini / 01.17.2017 Philosopher, Writer, Founding Editor The Philosophers’ Magazine...
Confucius sculpture, Nanjing, China. Kevinsmithnyc, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA By Dr. Alexus McLeod / 10.30.2017 Associate Professor of...
Postcard of the Carnegie Library in Vancouver BC, c1905, funded by a bequest from the American philanthropist Andrew...
Portrait of David Hume by Allan Ramsay, 1754. / National Galleries of Scotland By Dr. Dennis Rasmussen...
A banyan tree. Photo by thomas/Flickr By Dr. Jonardon Ganeri / 06.23.2017 Professor of Philosophy and Religion, British...
Detail from the Florentine Codex, late 16th C. / World Digital Library By Dr. Sebastian Purcell /...
Scene from FW Murnau’s Nosferatu 1922. / Photo by Rex Features By Dr. Thomas W. Laqueur / 01.11.2017 Professor...
Detail from Madame Jeantaud au miroir by Edgar Degas c1875. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Bence Nanay / 10.16.2017 Professor...
By Dr. Garth Kemerling / 11.12.2011 Professor of Philosophy Capella University Philosophy Pages Heidegger: Being-There (or Nothing) Life and...
Rockwell Kent’s illustration of Captain Ahab from the 1937 edition of Moby Dick. Image by Rex Features By Dr....
By Dr. Garth Kemerling / 11.12.2011 Professor of Philosophy Capella University Philosophy Pages Ludwig Wittgenstein: Analysis of Language Life...
Poet and Nobel Prize winner Czesław Miłosz speaking onstage to a crowd of students at Warsaw University,...
George Santayana By Dr. Garth Kemerling / 11.12.2011 Professor of Philosophy Capella University Philosophy Pages Critical Realism Although...
By Dr. Garth Kemerling / 11.12.2011 Professor of Philosophy Capella University Philosophy Pages G.E. Moore: Analysis of Common Sense...
Franz Brentano By Dr. Garth Kemerling / 11.12.2011 Professor of Philosophy Capella University Philosophy Pages Logic and Mathematics By...
Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. Detail. Bronze. 160-170s. Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo dei Conservatori. By Dr. Robert...