Kantian philosophy has long provided a rigorous framework for understanding how we acquire knowledge, positing that the mind actively structures experience through a set of innate concepts. Immanuel ...

Mainstream economics has long struggled to model ethical behaviour, including what is perhaps its simplest type, altruism. The standard assumption of homo economicus, an agent who maximizes his ...

This course is available on the MSc in Political Theory. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. Optional for MSc ...

When I was 17, I searched my school’s small library for books that might feed my budding curiosity about philosophy. There was only one: Stephan Körner’s introduction to the Prussian giant of the ...

(Rabbi Rudin, the American Jewish Committee’s senior interreligious adviser, is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Saint Leo University.) (UNDATED) At a recent service in our synagogue, Rabbi Darren ...

Calling German philosopher Immanuel Kant’s ethics “terribly poor,” Chinese philosophy scholar Han Dongping has become the target of criticism for an article with a bold yet somewhat overweening title.

Game theory explains competitive behavior by working from the premise that people are self-interested. People don’t just compete, however; they also cooperate. In “How We Cooperate,” John Roemer ...

Calling German philosopher Immanuel Kant’s ethics “terribly poor,” Chinese philosophy scholar Han Dongping has become the target of criticism for an article with a bold yet somewhat overweening title.