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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Philosophers explore questions about life on every level, from immediate ethical dilemmas to broader questions about human existence, justice, the nature of knowledge, and beauty. Philosophy majors ...