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 ...

In his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, E.O. Wilson laid out a grand vision for how the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities might be coherently interrelated. Given how ...

Buridan’s Ass is one of the oldest insults in existence. It has been consistently used to make fun of a particular worldview — one that doesn’t allow for free will. But this notion gained new ...

Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow do not succeed in murdering philosophy in their recent book The Grand Design. Nor do they even try. Perhaps this is because they believe, as they blandly announce ...

Legal dogmatics in Continental European law (scientia iuris, Rechtswissenschaft) consists of professional legal writings whose task is to systematize and interpret valid law. Legal dogmatics pursues ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. In 1917 John Dewey published “The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy.” The essay consists of a ...

Although 'neurophilosophy' sounds like a new cross-disciplinary degree program, it is actually an ancient concept. The Greek philosophers Alcmaeon and Hippocrates were the founders of empirical ...

Karl Marx dedicated his life to the cause of revolutionary socialism, while Ludwig Wittgenstein generally stayed away from politics. Marx had a background in Hegelian philosophy, while Wittgenstein ...