Labor Day Weekend is upon us. That means back to school for some 50 million U.S. students—and their teachers. Most likely, lesson plans, at least the early ones, are ready to go. If you teach an age ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A statue of Marcus Aurelius at Brown University. Aurelius wrote one of the best books about stoicism. Stoicism books explain this ...

Want to start reading philosophy? Here are eight books we recommend. Some of these are difficult for beginners, but they are well worth the effort. Spending time reading a difficult work of philosophy ...

The United States, we all know, is a peculiarly unphilosophical country. Americans don’t like abstract theorizing or deep introspection; we are a nation of doers, not thinkers like those effete ...

Monasteries, manuscripts and slow thought shaped centuries of ideas about God, reason and human duty. Medieval philosophy ...

Duncan Ivison receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of The Conversation. Matthew Sharpe has taught and written on political philosophy at ...

Overshadowed by the centenary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus also celebrates 100 years in 2022. One of the most influential works of ...