In the November 22 issue, Mikhail N. Epstein, a professor at Emory University, is quoted as saying: “Practically every generally accepted decision that is made in the humanities (philosophy, ...

Philosophy is a uniquely reflexive activity. It tends to swallow any question about itself and make it into just more philosophy. Other disciplines are different. The history of physics is not physics ...

For those of us who may not have given philosophy a second thought because we associate it with mind-numbing linguistic analysis or impossibly convoluted compound German words, Kreeft assures us that ...

If philosophy is "the love of wisdom", the common meaning of the word "philosophy" does not reveal the active, world-transforming side that lies behind it. We associate a philosopher with someone who ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This is the third in a series of posts on ...