For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors ...

These may include metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophies of mind and language, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, and central historical figures (for example, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche) ...

Isn’t that the point of a life well-lived? Immanuel Kant weighed in on self-reflection, which Rowlands says dogs practice, though obviously not as humans do. He disagrees with Sartre’s princip ...