Contemporary philosophy has a problem. No one outside the philosophical tribe seems to be listening. The most abstract of the humanities, philosophy grows ever more marginal in academe. As core ...

René Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, argued that living without questioning is akin to keeping one's eyes closed.

Pitcher's scholarship focused on issues of contemporary philosophy, including theory of knowledge and philosophy of mind. He was an expert on early 20th-century Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig ...

A guide for those that are interested in philosophy, but are having trouble knowing where to start. The list is obviously not definitive and opinions as to how reliable some of the texts mentioned are ...

Since the time of Descartes philosophers have sought to establish what justifies true beliefs by examining the epistemic conditions immediately underlying knowledge claims. As critics of this ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

The NY/NJ Consortium was founded to promote the study of the history of modern philosophy and to enhance communication and mutual cooperation between scholars of the history of philosophy within the ...

Among our contemporaries, few have been more successful at maintaining a vigorous and productive balance between wonder and doubt than the English philosopher Roger Scruton. Of course, this isn’t the ...

The history of philosophy studies how philosophical ideas have developed over time and how thinkers from different periods responded to questions about reality, knowledge, ethics and politics. By ...

So there I was beginning my studies in philosophy at a secular school. I had fallen in love with philosophy while auditing a couple of classes on C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Plato and Aristotle taught ...