The Ask a Philosopher table appears daily at Suburban Station this week while the American Philosophical Association conference is in Philadelphia. Ian Olasov (left), a part-time philosophy professor ...

During times of turbulence in politics, culture, and religious life, it’s tempting to hold tightly to current convictions. Allowing a change of one’s mind or heart can be difficult work. With this in ...

Ah philosophers, you gotta love ‘em. Even if they have given up the pretension of being wiser than everyone else, they still purport to be smarter, or at least more analytically adept. And yet they ...

Japanese philosopher Masao Abe's quote, 'Emptiness is I,' redefines the self in Zen Buddhism. It signifies that our identity ...

This exchange makes professional philosophers titter, because their daily work is far removed from the production of sage utterances. But the request for “sayings” was not an unreasonable one. The ...

Was Plato a sage, spiritual teacher, or prophet whose philosophy echoed Christian ideas centuries before Christ?

Tuesday night, in the fourth Republican debate, Sen. Marco Rubio decided to make a point about the state of wages, education, and employment in America by comparing welders with philosophers. “For the ...

Roman Stoic philosopher Senecas quote, “Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that ...