A Headington school has won a regional philosophy competition to book their place in the national final at Eton College.

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The late Douglas Shrader was a SUNY distinguished teaching professor and the chair of the Philosophy Department at SUNY ...

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A few weeks ago I bought two chrysanthemums for my windowsill. After giving them the dose of water they clearly missed in the ...

Those familiar with game theory will probably know the game of ‘chicken’. But few are aware that the metaphor was formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, who wrote: ...

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The Tesla, Trump & Twitter guy is way too functional, too mercenary, too glib, too lacking in humanity and any kind of self-awareness, and too morally compromised to be any kind of philosopher king.

Life’s a funny thing, isn’t it? You spend your years chasing wisdom, searching for meaning, trying to put the puzzle together, and then, in the final moments, you get one last shot at summing it all ...

The Argentine novelist often wrote about outsiders—and maintained his own distance from the literary world centered in Buenos ...