In his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, E.O. Wilson laid out a grand vision for how the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities might be coherently interrelated. Given how ...

Two heads may be better than one, but in this case, many noggins still haven’t produced a solution. The problem of the repugnant conclusion is a pesky one that philosophers have worked on for decades.

THIS book well represents the remarkable change which has come over the study of philosophy within living memory. People who studied philosophy at one of our universities thirty or forty years ago ...

THIS is a useful book, with a modestly misleading title. When a writer introduces ‘problems of’ or ‘studies in’ this or that subject, he is commonly taken to offer his own particular theories on a ...

One important aspect of twentieth-century philosophy is the rise of what has been variously called “analytic,” “critical,” or “linguistic” philosophy. As in most such cases, no exact date can be ...

The world needs flexible thinkers who confront complex situations and help resolve problems in positive ways that are neither narrowly political nor purely profit-driven. Drexel University’s Bachelor ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. It’s been said in many places before: A degree in the humanities isn’t ...