Throughout history, prisoners of war have faced some of the harshest conditions imaginable. These men endured starvation, ...

If the universe is expanding at the speed of light, what exists beyond the edge it hasn’t reached yet? During junior high ...

I read Julian Baggini’s review of the new Ludwig Wittgenstein biography with keen interest (“An Attack on the Abstract,” Bookshelf, Nov. 19). In the late 1970s I was a graduate student in the ...

Fergus Edwards does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher’s restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background. By Nikhil Krishnan Nikhil Krishnan is the author of “A Terribly Serious ...

In The Philosophy of Translation, Damion Searls investigates the essential differences—and similarities—between the task of the translator and of the writer. By just about any measure, Damion Searls, ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Then help came—in the form, as Boethius tells it, of a mysterious and divine visitor to his cell: ...

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 ...

Philosophy often flourishes in the aftermath of wars, especially lost wars. Socrates served in the losing Athenian army in the Peloponnesian War; Thomas Hobbes wrote “Leviathan” while in exile in ...

No person could reasonably claim to have the answer to the meaning of life. An even more daring claim is to know what meaning is at all. What is the meaning of these very words? Of language as a whole ...