Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

Agnes Callard doesn’t only study and teach philosophy—she lives it. Whether debating a friend over dinner, leading a late-night discussion in Hyde Park, or questioning her own beliefs in print, she ...

This conversation is the tenth in the series, Trench Democracy: Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places. Lisa Guenther, a philosophy professor at Vanderbilt University, holds a reading group in ...

Philosophy is completely dependent on philosophers, though the love of wisdom is not limited to those who write books and teach philosophy. This is both a necessity and a misfortune. We learn from ...

Peter Kreeft ’59 has been teaching philosophy at Boston College for more than 50 years and considers himself a matchmaker. “I love philosophy. It is the love of wisdom,” he said. “At Boston College, ...

Think on Death. It is a wonderful thing to learn thoroughly how to die. The quote, attributed to the ancient philosopher Seneca, was printed at the bottom of a handout that Andrew Mills recently ...

West Virginia’s governor introduced the public Wednesday to the first director of a new academic center designed to teach West Virginia University students how to think critically and learn about the ...

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego philosophy professor can’t claim that his rights were violated when he was disciplined for using sexist epithets during class after a federal judge ruled on Tuesday that his ...

There have been a great many discussions in the news recently about the politics of academic teachers. And, generally, these accounts involve complaints that the faculty are disproportionately ...