Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. In his 16 th century fresco The School of Athens, Raphael sought to capture the essential spirit of ...

The noted philosopher Richard Rorty died on Friday in Palo Alto, Calif., after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 75. During his career, Mr. Rorty held positions at Princeton University, the ...

On March 28, Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will sentence former FTX chairman Sam Bankman-Fried on seven separate counts of fraud and conspiracy, with federal prosecutors asking for a sentence of 40 to ...

Researchers believe the structure belonged to one of history’s most famous philosophers. Marine archaeologists in the Gulf of Naples have unearthed an ancient Roman bathhouse believed to belong to ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

Henri Bergson’s philosophy for our times. Why did one of the early 20th century’s most famous philosophers go out of fashion? Fama is a fickle deity. at the turn of the 20th century, Henri Bergson was ...

In the fall of 2017, Talitha Wisner was completing her assigned reading for Practical Ethics—one of Princeton University’s most popular philosophy classes—when she decided to e-mail her professor. In ...

Paging through “The Portable Nietzsche,” I went outside for a walk and within the space of a few moments discovered the popular philosopher’s unsung place within the interior and outer ecosystems of ...

In Professor Sophie Oluwole who died last week at the age of eighty two, Nigeria and the Black world as a whole have lost one of their most resourceful and creative intellectuals. Our paths crossed ...