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 ...

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 ...

Peter Kreeft ’59 has been teaching philosophy at Boston College for more than 50 years and considers himself a matchmaker. “I love philosophy. It is the love of wisdom,” he said. “At Boston College, ...

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 ...

“At the root of it all, all of us want to see our students succeed,” says Keith Fennen, associate teacher professor in the philosophy department, as he discusses his time participating in the Howe ...

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 ...

There have been a great many discussions in the news recently about the politics of academic teachers. And, generally, these accounts involve complaints that the faculty are disproportionately ...