The Philosophy of Literature. Classics and Contemporary Readings : An Anthology, edited by Eileen John and Dominic McIver Lopes, Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies, 2003. This anthology contains ...

This year, the honor in the Sanskrit category has been conferred upon the eminent scholar Mahamahopadhyaya Swami Bhadreshdasji for his monumental work ‘Prasthanachatushtaye Brahmaghosha’. Recognized ...

Blending fiction and philosophy is more akin to chemistry than art: It involves creating a synthetic element that rarely occurs in nature in stable form. Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, and Ursula Le ...

Martha Nussbaum will probably not win the Nobel Prize in Literature this year. There are politics to the prize, and the internet’s consensus is that the winner will not come from a North American or ...

Walk into any university philosophy department, and the required reading list includes Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein. The canon is a fortress, and for centuries, its gates remained firmly ...

Representing nearly half of all students, the College of Arts and Science (CAS) is Miami University's largest division and the centerpiece of liberal arts — the wide range of subjects in the natural ...

Most people know Bill Gass as a writer of fiction and essays, but I knew him first in my life as a philosopher; my colleague, who taught philosophy here for many years. What kind of philosopher was he ...

At a time when advances in science and technology have changed our understanding of our mental and physical selves, it is easy for some to dismiss the discipline of philosophy as obsolete. Stephen ...