A weeklong series of free events across Vermont encourages participants to explore life’s biggest questions — with no academic background required.

The English polymath Robert Hooke is known for his investigations into life too small for us to see. But his contributions to ...

Today, many people associate epicureanism with hedonistic pleasure-seeking – but that’s not really what he taught.

Periods of happiness are empty pages in history,” he wrote in his Introduction to the Philosophy of History, “for they are the periods of harmony, times when the antithesis is missing.” In other words ...

According to Abimbola, ‘writing is an enemy of remembrance’. “What do you mean, sir?” I asked. “The 256 Ifa corpus can be sectionalised into 800 large volumes.

La Masia, the famed youth academy of FC Barcelona, has long been considered one of the most successful football training programs in the world. But why have other clubs struggled to replicate its ...

Spanning three decades of exile, his childhood friend David William Segawa Mukasa believes this journey through the unlikely ...

The Pittsburgh Steelers are changing their philosophy with the new DK Metcalf contract. Metcalf’s deal comes out to just ...

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A forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. The series moderator is Simon Critchley, who teaches philosophy at The New School for Social Research.

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That’s been a surprise, just how fast it’s taken off.” In his Honors Program curriculum — as well as in other philosophy classes Katz leads — the professor presents his students with ...