In 1997, I had a vision that I drew out in a flash that would change my life. It depicted the evolution of complexity that started with energy and grew into the dimensions of matter, life, mind, and ...

Professor Helen Beebee challenges traditional notions of knowledge and progress in philosophy. She argues that unlike science, which builds on established knowledge, philosophy often grapples with ...

A COMMON refrain heard around New Scientist‘s offices in recent weeks has been “episte… what?!” Even among educated and well-informed people, epistemology – the study of knowledge – is neither a ...

Many students interested in studying philosophy at university will be concerned about its job prospects, so they require courses that demonstrate how to translate its skills into a career, writes ...

PROF. LADD, of Yale, is well known as an industrious writer on psychology, and upon philosophy regarded mainly from a psychologist's point of view. The present volume gives his Theory of Knowledge, ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson may be a gifted popularizer of science, but when it comes to humanistic learning more generally, he is a philistine. Some of us suspected this on the basis of the historically and ...