With Bertie’s Theory of Ice Cream, the seventy-something Scottish author continues to delight his fans worldwide ...

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Callard is a University of Chicago moral philosopher with a madcap streak, and a perpetually controversial figure for making ...

Fantasy is escapist and that is its grandeur. The fantasist sees reality as his captor thus his desire to escape. But the ...

In the acknowledgements at the end of her new book, Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard writes: “Socrates compares writing down one’s ideas to planting seeds in barren soil from which nothing ...

After decades of practising psychotherapy, I believe it has little foundation in science and often causes harm ...

In the US, the price of hamburger meat ended 2024 near a record high of $5.60 per pound. Is there a magic wand to solve the problem of high beef prices, as well as high pork and chicken prices? Yes, ...

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In Timaeus, written around 360 BCE, Socrates expresses his wish to hear an account about Athens in action. Critias responds that he knows of such an account. He then goes on to tell Socrates the story ...

Microsoft has created a new engineering organization aimed at accelerating AI infrastructure and software development within the company. According to Bloomberg, Jay Parikh, previously VP and ...