The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors

A.I. labs are hiring contrarian, chin-stroking, finger-steepling sages. Who’s underemployed now? Clockwise from top left: ...
Greek Reporter

Greek Philosopher Plutarch’s 2,000-Year-Old Self-Help Book Still Relevant Today

The Ancient Greek historian Plutarch is known for his incisive essays in Moralia, a collection that reads like a modern-day ...
Greek Reporter

Was Greek Philosopher Diogenes the Cynic the First Anarchist?

Greek philosopher Diogenes the Cynic could have been the first anarchist, satirist, or naturalist, depending on the reader's ...
The Economist

Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers

T EN YEARS ago, as the AI revolution was gathering pace, arts and humanities students were told that, if they wanted to make ...
Wall Street Journal

‘America’s Philosopher’ Review: The Key to John Locke

One way to sum up postwar American politics is to say that conservatives try to stop liberals from breaking the liberals’ own rules. The “rules” in this formulation are those of liberalism in the ...
Newsweek

We Set Up an ‘Ask a Philosopher’ Booth. Here’s What People Wanted To Know About Life | Opinion

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The life choices that had led me to be sitting in a booth underneath a ...
The New Yorker

The Philosopher L. A. Paul Wants Us to Think About Our Selves

The Sonoran Desert, which covers much of the southwestern United States, is a vast expanse of arid earth where cartoonish entities—roadrunners, tumbleweeds, telephone-pole-tall succulents—make ...
The Irish Times

I’m a philosopher, get me out of here!

Philosophy is an odd pursuit in that its practitioners aren’t quite sure what it’s for. Scientists add to the stock of human knowledge. Medics cure ailments. Lawyers administer justice. Philosophers ...