It is a cliché about philosophers that they ponder the meaning of life. They don’t. In the David Norton Memorial Lecture, scheduled for Friday, Sept. 16 in the University of Delaware’s Gore Hall, ...

The Roy Wood Sellars Lectureship was established in 1971 to celebrate both Roy Wood Sellars and W. Preston Warren. The latter was for many years chair of the philosophy department at Bucknell and was ...

Philosophy tries to answer some pretty hard questions: What does morality require of us? Are there objective moral truths? Do we have free will? How is the mind related to the brain? Does science ...

I define imagination as the faculty of the mind that forms and manipulates images, propositions, concepts, emotions, and sensations above and beyond, and sometimes independently, of incoming stimuli, ...

Lear, a philosopher who focused on Aristotle and the philosophy of psychoanalysis, passed away on September 22.

BC Philosopher Richard Kearney has written new books on the importance of the sense of touch and the need to engage in narrative exchanges with others Photo of Richard Kearney by Lee Pellegrini. A lot ...

Einstein held that imagination is more important than knowledge: 'I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.' I define ...

BC Philosopher Richard Kearney has written new books on the importance of the sense of touch and the need to engage in narrative exchanges with others Photo of Richard Kearney by Lee Pellegrini. A lot ...