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 ...

Two heads may be better than one, but in this case, many noggins still haven’t produced a solution. The problem of the repugnant conclusion is a pesky one that philosophers have worked on for decades.

An old strategy can help leaders reduce the risk of the solutions backfiring. However, as noted in Forbes last year, a study in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that employees may perceive egg ...

THIS book well represents the remarkable change which has come over the study of philosophy within living memory. People who studied philosophy at one of our universities thirty or forty years ago ...

THIS is a useful book, with a modestly misleading title. When a writer introduces ‘problems of’ or ‘studies in’ this or that subject, he is commonly taken to offer his own particular theories on a ...

With an folksy style and overly reductive economics, Landsburg (The Armchair Economist) solves, to his own satisfaction, a host of such philosophical problems as the limits of knowledge, what reality ...

One important aspect of twentieth-century philosophy is the rise of what has been variously called “analytic,” “critical,” or “linguistic” philosophy. As in most such cases, no exact date can be ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. It’s been said in many places before: A degree in the humanities isn’t ...