Hobbes is best known for Leviathan (1651), regarded as one of the most influential works in the history of political ...

The French philosopher takes phenomena such as mass consumption, aesthetics, leisure and the kitsch to examine our world and insists that while his field can play a role in understanding it, taking an ...

Quote of the day by Franklin D. Roosevelt highlights shared roots of immigrants and revolutionists. The quote connects history with leadership. This explainer covers the meaning of the quote, ...

Tens of millions of people with depression aren't properly diagnosed. Stanford researchers show that brain imaging could revolutionize treatment. Researchers at Stanford recently described six ...

Philosophy is the quiet engine behind everything we think, question, and imagine. From Athens to Kyoto, from Königsberg to Calcutta, the world’s greatest thinkers have tried to make sense of existence ...

“What if consciousness, like love, is the work of making relationships?” Alva Noë, chair of the philosophy department at the University of California, Berkeley, proposed at Stanford’s annual ...

The Sonoran Desert, which covers much of the southwestern United States, is a vast expanse of arid earth where cartoonish entities—roadrunners, tumbleweeds, telephone-pole-tall succulents—make ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Appiah, a scholar who is known for his approaches to ethics, language, nationality and race, will receive the honor from the Library of Congress. By Annie Aguiar The philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah ...

Brian Ball receives funding from the British Academy, and has previously been supported by the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Leverhulme Trust. Anthony Grayling does not work ...

A study of more than a million Danes found that frequent moves in childhood had a bigger effect than poverty on adult mental health risk. By Ellen Barry In recent decades, mental health providers ...