I made a new friend recently: Dr. Kari Konkola. He has a doctoral degree in history and has spent a long time examining what are called Confessors' Manuals, which are medieval Latin texts by Christian ...

The most important part of knowledge, in Socrates' view? Knowing how much you don't know. Yoeml/iStock via Getty Images Plus But each dilemma usually comes down to polarized deadlock between two ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 175, No. 2 (February 2018), pp. 461-481 (21 pages) Ramseyan humility is the thesis that we cannot know ...

The default psychological setting for human beings is an unavoidable self-centeredness. We each stand at the center of our own thoughts, feelings and needs, and thus experience them in a way that we ...

How do you know you’re awake right now? You’re reading this, so of course you’re awake. Still, though. How do you know you’re not dreaming? Philosopher René Descartes posed this challenge back in the ...

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research was founded in 1940 by Marvin Farber, who edited it for forty years. Since 1980 it has been at Brown, where it has been edited by Roderick Chisholm and then, ...

As is often noted, piety is not among the list of moral and intellectual virtues mentioned by Aristotle in the Ethics. I argue that this is neither an oversight on Aristotle’s part nor a subtle way ...

In today’s complex and fast-paced world, the role of a leader extends far beyond mere decision-making. Effective leadership is characterized by a multifaceted approach that includes listening, ...

In a discussion on philosophy, Bertrand Russell defines philosophy as speculation about matters beyond current scientific knowledge. He contrasts philosophy with science, stating that while science ...