French philosopher René Descartes once wrote, “To doubt everything is the first step toward truth.” The statement, simple on the surface, sits at the heart of modern philosophy and scientific thinking ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Star Trek has often been described as a philosophical sci-fi franchise, but that’s usually just a general descriptor for the ...
The letter X can be a lot of things: rebellious, mysterious, religious. For this Word of the Week, we examine its origins and ...
A single mistake can sometimes change how we see the truth forever. When something we trusted turns out to be false, it forces us to question not just that one belief, but the way we judge everything ...
In 1758, Claude-Adrien Helvétius argued, “All judgment is nothing more than a sensation,” and he was far from alone in this conviction. Eighteenth-century philosophers on all ends of the spectrum, ...
This colloquium revolves around Universities in the Low Countries and the (un)making of confessional boundaries.
Nerd Alert! This week we focus on France’s contribution to knowledge and ideas. If French philosopher René Descartes famously said, “I think, therefore I am,” then “we think, therefore we are” could ...