To have moral worth, our actions must be motivated by duty, rather than mere sympathy or inclination. As a paradigm of moral ...

In April, 1745, God appeared to a Swedish civil servant named Emanuel Swedenborg in a London tavern. Swedenborg was no wild-eyed prophet but, rather, a fifty-seven-year-old scientist and engineer who ...

In the past, we have covered various scientists and their contributions to their respective professions, but we’ve never touched based on professors of philosophy. Not until now, that is. Immanuel ...

Egginton, a professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of the new book The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Kant, Heisenberg, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality The philosophical world ...

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Not for the first time, vandals are wreaking havoc in central Europe. Russian police say they're looking for the intellectually minded miscreants who graffitied "Kant is a moron"—along with a flower ...