Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

Histories of philosophy tend either to be prodigious, learned works, like F.C. Copleston's A History of Philosophy, or idiosyncratic tracts of scholarly obfuscation, like Bertrand Russell's A History ...

Scholar’s book examines how a long line of thinkers have approached Plato’s use of myth in political philosophy Tae-Yeoun Keum was mesmerized by Plato as a freshman in college. She most loved the ...

Melissa Lane, the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, has been awarded the Journal of the History of Philosophy's 2024 Book Prize for "Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political" (Princeton ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...