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

Here is a story I have heard from more than one professional philosopher, though it has never, at least not yet, happened to me: You are sitting on a plane, the person next to you asks what you do, ...

Biographies help promote a better understanding of the ideas of philosophers, though comprehending the ideas these philosophers promote does not necessarily require a historical understanding of the ...

Web communities have helped the ancient philosophy of Stoicism find fans in a new generation. utah778/iStock via Getty Images Plus Stoicism may be having a renaissance. For centuries, the ancient ...

In June, 1981, the Black poet and activist Audre Lorde delivered the keynote address at the annual conference of the National Women’s Studies Association. In her speech, which was later published as ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Adrian Bardon, Wake Forest University (THE CONVERSATION) “Time flies,” “time waits for ...

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously writes about life being ‘nasty, brutish, and short’ ( Leviathan, 1652), but it wasn’t the latter for him. In fact, he lived a very long life. Back in his day, the ...

Love is confusing. People in the U.S. Google the word “love” about 1.2 million times a month. Roughly a quarter of those searches ask “what is love” or request a “definition of love.” What is all this ...