Leaders writing books is not an unusual phenomenon in history, but in modern authoritarian contexts, the act of publishing a political philosophy often ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

THE substance of this work has already appeared in the German periodical Nord und Süd, and the author here tells us that he has reproduced it in an enlarged form and in an English dress in order to do ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

This article argues that it is possible to write a literary history of lists. Literary history told through the feature of the list promises to be highly relevant because it necessarily combines form ...

In a call to action for universities and society at large, this inspiring lecture underscored the power of language as a ...

For French writer Laurent Binet, this seemingly innocuous (albeit tragic) accident was in fact a far more nefarious event, one that is the basis for his compelling new novel. In The 7th Function of ...

The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method was founded by Karl Popper in 1946 and is renowned for a type of philosophy that is both continuous with the sciences and socially relevant.

The photograph of a Black child in a cage, taken in the Belgian Congo in 1955, was part of a Belgian settler rsquo;s family album before it was archived at ...