The mystical insight came to Nietzsche like a lightning flash: time eternally recurs – and life must be lived accordingly ...

The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them?

Skadden, less hampered by the pretentions of its WASP competitors, decided to broaden its search. Black and Asian, ...

Empathy, the sharing of feelings with another person and consequently caring about them, is typically a virtue in our society. ‘I hear you’ and ‘I feel your pain’ are said with a sense of compassion ...

It’s a question that’s reverberated through the ages – are humans, though imperfect, essentially kind, sensible, good-natured creatures? Or are we, deep down, wired to be bad, blinkered, idle, vain, ...

is assistant professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History (2016). He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. In the 13th ...

is senior lecturer in Buddhist Studies at the the University of Melbourne in Australia. A cultural anthropologist working in the areas of religion, technology, and death, she also works with the ...

Everyone is panicking about the death of reading. The statistics look damning: the share of Americans who read for pleasure on an average day has fallen by more than 40 per cent over the past 20 years ...

We shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the notion that AIs could possess some form of consciousness, argues Jonathan Birch, ...

is associate professor of philosophy at Vassar College, New York state, and is Humanities-Writ Large fellow at Duke University in North Carolina. He hosts and produces the philosophy podcasts Hi-Phi ...

A typical university course in the history of philosophy surveys the great thinkers of Western civilisation as a stately procession from Plato to Aristotle to Descartes to Kant to Hegel to Nietzsche.

Everybody recognises Brutalist architecture – the massive concrete buildings that thumped their grey bulk into the heart of almost every city on Earth during the course of the 1960s and ’70s. Now they ...