Learn about the life and works of James M. Buchanan, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and pioneer of public choice theory and ...

The law was never intended to serve as a tool for purging classroom content or turning individual professors into pariahs.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines the demands of philosopher Peter Unger, namely, that we be forced ...

A conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah about the religious origins of social theory and his recent book Captive Gods.

In majoritarian morality, what begins as sentiment demands legitimacy; what gains legitimacy demands enforcement. Morality supplies the normative claim. Media shapes visibility. Public opinion ...

I am nonetheless struck by how few consistent leftists remain today in my region. Honestly, I even struggle to define myself — beyond the broad label of a leftist. The events that unfolded in my (now ...

Anthropic has released a 23,000-word constitution for Claude that contemplates AI consciousness while admitting the framework ...

Discover how credibility theory helps actuaries use historical data to estimate risks and set insurance premiums; learn how the Bayesian and Buhlmann methods relate.

A new book finds this evidence in rational arguments. And in something those arguments can’t capture. There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the ...

A UB researcher has published a study that uses elements of philosophy, psychology and game theory to develop a model of hypocrisy that helps distinguish genuine criticism from grandstanding ...