Until the beginning of World War I, Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was the most famous philosopher in the world. He attracted overflowing crowds of Parisians to his lectures and was greeted with the same ...
In 2001, Open Court published The Simpsons and Philosophy. I think I received six or seven copies for Christmas that year. Other philosophy professors I know (and there aren’t many, since we’re all ...
A popular media outlet has reported that a film surrounding the life of British philosopher and Nobel laureate, Bertrand ...
The noted philosopher Richard Rorty died on Friday in Palo Alto, Calif., after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 75. During his career, Mr. Rorty held positions at Princeton University, the ...
Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. In his 16 th century fresco The School of Athens, Raphael sought to capture the essential spirit of ...
AMHERST, N.Y.—Paul Kurtz, who founded an international center devoted to debunking psychics and UFOs and promoting science and reason over what he viewed as religious myths, has died. He was 86. The ...