After he expressed his view that philosophy is about finding answers to big questions, for example, some of the students who were listening to his remarks couldn’t resist challenging them.

We must take the great questions of philosophy seriously. Our very existence is being threatened by the deep existential confusion of our times.

That works out to more than two a minute. About a quarter of those questions sought explanations; the kids wanted to know how or why. Read: Why study philosophy? ‘To challenge your own point of ...

The volume features a host of leading scholars in philosophy and ethics, including Braden Allenby, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics at Arizona State University, and Bryan Norton, ...

Department Chair John Kaag brings philosophy into the public arena to help inform political discourse. He pens essays for The New York Times “Opinionator” column and other outlets, applying ...

A study of half a million students shows philosophy education measurably boosts critical thinking skills beyond natural ...

Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning, according to our new study published in ...

In his view, a lot of the questions that we’re now being confronted with by AI are actually at their core of traditional philosophical questions.

In an excellent course on the great questions of philosophy, the philosophical psychologist Dan Robinson frames the enterprise of philosophy in terms of the “long debate” about three central ...