When McDonald’s pledged in September 2015 to use cage-free eggs in all of its restaurants in the next decade, it came as no surprise to Calvin philosophy professor Matt Halteman. Not because he’s a ...

One of the evergreen topics in online discussions of physics is what role, if any, philosophy plays in the discipline. I've been blogging since 2002 (which is after the dinosaurs, but before the giant ...

Philosophy can be defined in many ways. What is integral to the definitions is that philosophy employs arguments, rather than say an appeal to religious revelation. One can create arguments for ...

Agnes Callard and the politics of public philosophy. In her new book, Callard makes the case that we should all live more philosophically but where does politics fit in? Agnes Callard’s Open Socrates ...

Philosophy is the study of the most basic ideas and ideals through which we understand ourselves and our world. As the pursuit of truth or, in its original Greek meaning, the love of wisdom, ...

Rasha Shraim is a PhD student at Trinity College Dublin, on a programme run by the SFI Centre for Research Training in Genomics Data Science. I am the only student on my PhD programme in genomics data ...

Star Trek began as a network failure, then became one of the most lauded scienc fiction fanchises of our time. This article, and others that honor the space saga, is featured in Newsweek's Special ...