In the late 1800s scientists began to interrogate the neurological basis of dreams. That changed in Sigmund Freud’s time but ...

The early lineages of hexapods (broadly defined insects) have long been debated. Researchers at University of Tsukuba and ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

The relationship between poetry and philosophy is ineluctable (unavoidable and inescapable) and widely understood. Although in this blog post we won’t go as far as to claim, like Coleridge, ...

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We live in anxious times. But there is a long tradition of philosophical thought that addresses the problem of anxiety.

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Reading Delany with and against a set of Marxist debates that have come to be known as “value form theory”, I suggest it is in the very form of literature that we can observe more subtle, granular and ...

Thus, each time he began his study of a problem or concept, such as Einstein’s theory of relativity ... Bergson was a revolutionary thinker who stood Plato on his head. The Platonic idea of universal ...

It is the disease. This idea, of despotism from the demos, has a distinguished pedigree. Plato and Aristotle thought that all, or nearly all, forms of tyranny arise from the people. The vulgar many ...