In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled uneasily with the realities of power.

Seán Radcliffe asks, has Plato’s Allegory of the Cave been warning us of social media for 2,400 years ... By looking at the whole picture, and by drawing on the lessons of the Allegory of the Cave’s ...

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

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

Modular forms and number theory are deeply interconnected areas of mathematics that explore the properties of functions defined on the complex upper half-plane and their implications for number ...

Modular forms and conformal field theory (CFT) are two interconnected areas of mathematical physics that have garnered significant attention in recent research. Modular forms are complex functions ...

The Big Bang Theory explains how the universe began. The Big Bang Theory stands as the most widely accepted explanation for the origin of the universe. According to this theory, the universe began ...

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 ...

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

Henry Mintzberg, a Canadian academic and business management expert, set out to help companies address this issue by creating his own managerial theory. In it, Mintzberg categorizes organizational ...