In 2001, Open Court published The Simpsons and Philosophy. I think I received six or seven copies for Christmas that year. Other philosophy professors I know (and there aren’t many, since we’re all ...

The noted philosopher Richard Rorty died on Friday in Palo Alto, Calif., after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 75. During his career, Mr. Rorty held positions at Princeton University, the ...

AMHERST, N.Y.—Paul Kurtz, who founded an international center devoted to debunking psychics and UFOs and promoting science and reason over what he viewed as religious myths, has died. He was 86. The ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. In his 16 th century fresco The School of Athens, Raphael sought to capture the essential spirit of ...