A philosopher offers four case studies in failure Emil Cioran, Mahatma Gandhi, Mishima Yukio and Simone Weil provide “lessons in humility”, says Costica Bradatan ...

How an 18th-Century Philosopher Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis. David Hume, the Buddha, and a search for the Eastern roots of the Western Enlightenment . By Alison Gopnik. October 2015 Issue.

The Philosopher AI is generally comfortable contemplating common existential issues. Take this response to the most fundamental philosophical question of them all: what is the meaning of life?

FOR his Friday evening discourse at the Royal Institution on December 2, Viscount Samuel took as his subject, “The Scientist and the Philosopher”. He said that in the complicated civilization ...