Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

The crackdowns on “wokeness” and “liberal indoctrination” in American higher education reached a ridiculous new low last week when a philosophy professor revealed that Texas A&M University objected to ...

Readers respond to a guest essay about the state’s effort to bar “officially disapproved ideas” from its university classrooms.

Martin Peterson teaches a philosophy course at Texas A&M University on contemporary moral issues. Students examine social problems such as abortion, capital punishment and global hunger through the ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

THE author of this ably written book is right in considering philosophy less as a body of results than as a mode of life. Owing probably to his wish to defend this conception, he restricts his inquiry ...

Sometimes, even the newest ideas have ancient roots. Take, for example, neoconservatism, the radical philosophy that supposedly guided the Bush administration’s ill-fated foreign policy decisions. Who ...

Imagining what the ancient Greek philosopher Plato would think of Google, Fox News, Tiger Moms, and neuroscience might seem like the sort of activity that would appeal only to undergraduate philosophy ...

For the past few weeks, the ancient Greek philosopher Plato has been tweeting. His ghostwriter—the author, philosopher and professor Rebecca Newberger Goldstein—has brought him back to life on social ...