Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

Agnes Callard doesn’t only study and teach philosophy—she lives it. Whether debating a friend over dinner, leading a late-night discussion in Hyde Park, or questioning her own beliefs in print, she ...

What does it mean to study philosophy? Unfortunately, many people today believe that studying philosophy amounts to nothing. Scientists as prominent as Neil deGrasse Tyson slammed philosophy as being ...

This award recognizes excellence in teaching by a faculty member over the course of a distinguished career. The awardee must demonstrate a well-articulated teaching philosophy that has developed ...

This conversation is the tenth in the series, Trench Democracy: Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places. Lisa Guenther, a philosophy professor at Vanderbilt University, holds a reading group in ...

Philosophy is completely dependent on philosophers, though the love of wisdom is not limited to those who write books and teach philosophy. This is both a necessity and a misfortune. We learn from ...

Think on Death. It is a wonderful thing to learn thoroughly how to die. The quote, attributed to the ancient philosopher Seneca, was printed at the bottom of a handout that Andrew Mills recently ...

West Virginia’s governor introduced the public Wednesday to the first director of a new academic center designed to teach West Virginia University students how to think critically and learn about the ...

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego philosophy professor can’t claim that his rights were violated when he was disciplined for using sexist epithets during class after a federal judge ruled on Tuesday that his ...