The Case for a Philosophical Life" by Agnes Callard. (W.W. Norton & Co., 416 pages, $35) During a time when many are ...

In “How the World Eats,” the philosopher Julian Baggini grapples with “everything that affects and is affected by” our comestibles.

Her superpowers as a philosopher sprung out of the frustration at getting her thoughts and herself across to people who ...

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Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact ...

Book Review: 'Open Socrates' Shows Why Philosophy Isn't a Spectator Sport During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a ...

Callard's book is intellectually challenging and hardly a simple crash course on Socrates, but the payoff is worth the time and effort put into rethinking approaches to philosophy and life.

Callard’s book is intellectually challenging and hardly a simple crash course on Socrates, but the payoff is worth the time and effort put into rethinking approaches to philosophy and life.