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, ...

In imagination as in our dreams, we ascribe form, pattern, and significance to things, and then reflect them back onto those things. Without this work of interpreting and assimilating, the world would ...

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 ...

Engaging the thought of the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard, I challenge a tendency within the analytic tradition of philosophy on the subject of meaning in life. Taking as a starting point ...

Whereas the significance of imagination in art appreciation is universally recognized, it is still a matter of debate whether imagination is important in the appreciation of nature. Some philosophers ...

Funded by a generous donation from the late Oliva Blanchette, longtime professor in the Boston College department of philosophy, and his wife, Dorothy Blanchette-Kennedy, the department hosts a ...

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

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 ...

B.A. Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia M.Litt., University of St. Andrews M.A. Boston College Maria Gallego-Ortiz is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at Boston College. She holds an MA in Philosophy ...