Socrates is the most important exponent of Western philosophy, his ideas forming a continuum from Ancient Greece to today's ...

Life can be truly rotten, but words are among the consolations available to us. We spend a lot of time marvelling at works of ...

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 ...

In 1993, philosophical and religious thinkers around the world convened to find a moral common ground for humanity. Now, in an increasingly fragmented world, Chinese philosophers are seeking a new way ...

In this course, students will practice the skills involved in "critical thinking" - the process by which they develop and support their beliefs and evaluate the strength of arguments. Students will ...

Dark spots across the sun, men burned at the stake, an all-powerful church that brooks no idea outside its dogma—there is no subject so imbued with drama, intrigue, and fast-paced action as ...

Dennis Whitcomb is a philosophy professor at Western Washington University and co-wrote one of the shortest philosophy articles ever written. (Hailey Hoffman/Cascadia Daily News) For months, Western ...