Commentary: Most people today want to spout their views, rather than engage in a spirited argument. Anyone who disagrees with them is evil and dangerous.

The "walking" philosophers, known as the Peripatetics, represent one of the most influential traditions in the history of ancient Greece.

Originally from the North West of England, I hold degrees from the Universities of Leeds and Geneva, where I obtained my PhD in Modern English Literature in 2023. In 2019, I was the recipient of a ...

Whenever someone said to my father, “Let’s have a conversation,” he would reply, “No, let’s have an argument.” Today, that would sound aggressive, but it wasn’t at all. We need more people today who ...

Whenever someone said to my father, “Let’s have a conversation,” he would reply, “No, let’s have an argument.” Today, that would sound aggressive, but it wasn’t at all. We need more people today who ...

Scholar who combined philosophical and psychoanalytic ideas remembered for his ‘intellectual joy’ and truth seeking ...

In 1932, in one of the more infamous exchanges between what eventually came to be known as the “analytic” and “continental” schools, the Vienna Circle’s Rudolf Carnap delivered a withering critique of ...

In his famous 1925 essay “A Defence of Common Sense,” the philosopher G. E. Moore wrote: “There exists at present a living human body, which is my body.” For Moore, such an utterance is an example of ...

On the birth anniversary of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, let us look at his important contributions to India’s social reform movement. In Beyond the Nugget, also learn about other prominent social ...

The study challenges the idea that people engaging with AI-driven arguments automatically become irrational. Instead, it suggests that the risk lies in a subtler erosion: people may form attitudes ...

Sometimes the things right in front of us are the hardest to see. Like gravity or the cultural belief systems we inhabit, there are, as Wallace put it, “obvious, ubiquitous, important realities” all ...