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While students may expect organic chemistry at the California Institute of Technology and advanced topics in quantum mechanics at Stanford University to be among the hardest college classes in the ...

Walking through the doorway into John Daum's classroom at Central High School, students get a pretty good idea about his philosophy of life. "Question everything," a sign beneath his nameplate reads.

Does free will exist? Can computers think? Is there a God? What is the meaning of life? Is abortion morally wrong? Can anyone really know anything at all? By studying such difficult questions, ...

College philosophy classes may open your mind to new ways of thinking. But can they really affect how you behave? The answer is yes, according to a new study. "In the current environment where people ...

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 ...

Philosophy has had an important role in shaping who we are today. The PreSocratic philosophers began the rational approach to understanding the world, the culmination of which is modern science.

Historicizing Analytic Philosophy In his new book, A Social History of Analytic Philosophy, Christoph Schuringa makes precisely this case. Schuringa, a philosopher at Northeastern University in London ...