The feelings needed to become a good philosopher “are not very common,” explained the philosopher Bertrand Russell, one of the intellectual stars of the last century. The good philosopher has “an ...

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 ...

Pop goes the philosophy–it’s time for top 10 ancient atheist philosophers and their quotes. Philosophers aren’t always atheists. The one I dated for 7 years was though–I still tease her by saying God ...

Hope springs eternal? Not for many philosophers, but the solution may lie in specifying when a hope is truly satisfied. In A Nutshell Why It Matters: The research shows that theories of eternal truth ...

Since the upheavals of the financial crisis of 2008 and the political turbulence of 2016, it has become clear to many that liberalism is, in some sense, failing. The turmoil has given pause to ...

Consider, now the so-called "Philosopher's Brief." Six eminent American moral philosophers -- Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson -- ...