Jonathan Lear was a longtime University of Chicago philosophy professor and psychoanalyst whose areas of study encompassed ...

In response to increasing student interest in science’s latest answers to the Big Questions, and the growing importance of science in today’s knowledge economy, Sacramento State has joined the ranks ...

In a discussion on philosophy, Bertrand Russell defines philosophy as speculation about matters beyond current scientific knowledge. He contrasts philosophy with science, stating that while science ...

One of the most influential philosophers and cognitive scientists, Daniel C. Dennett, passed away this week. He was one of the first contemporary philosophers to take naturalism really seriously, i.e.

Socrates, of all the philosophers in the history of mankind, was probably the biggest pain in the ass. He believed argument itself was the core to understanding anyone, including himself. He didn’t ...

Robert C. Solomon, 64, a philosophy professor who taught at UCLA in the 1960s and at the University of Texas at Austin since 1972, died Jan. 2 of pulmonary hypertension after he collapsed at the ...

Many conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) center on the question of how the technology can impact the future and shape our world. In addition to considering the possible future benefits, ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Philosophy Foundation has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2001 Speech. May 25, 2003 marked the bicentennial of the birth of Ralph Waldo ...