Hope springs eternal? Not for many philosophers, but the solution may lie in specifying when a hope is truly satisfied. In A ...

In June, 1981, the Black poet and activist Audre Lorde delivered the keynote address at the annual conference of the National Women’s Studies Association. In her speech, which was later published as ...

This week, a group of about 100 physicists and philosophers have gathered in Munich to reassess a question at the heart of science: “Why trust a theory?” In an opinion piece by George Ellis and Joe ...

The word "philosophy" comes from the Greek for "love of wisdom," and that's appropriate -- it's largely a calling one pursues for love, not for fame and certainly not for money. And while the most ...

Douglas MacLean is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In the Republican presidential debate this week, Sen. Marco Rubio was promoting the value of vocational ...

Opinions differ about what recent measurements of a sound-trapping fluid reveal about light-trapping black holes. The question is how to interpret the bizarre analogy between a fluid of rubidium atoms ...

In his final essay the late physicist Victor Stenger argues for the validity of philosophy in the context of modern theoretical physics Editor’s Note: Shortly before his death last August at the age ...

Lee McIntyre is a member of the American Philosophical Association. The life choices that had led me to be sitting in a booth underneath a banner that read “Ask a Philosopher” – at the entrance to the ...