The evidence of human-induced climate change is clear. At minimum, climate change will cost us dearly due to the economic impacts and lives lost from the increased frequency and severity of extreme ...

"Existentialism" is a label first applied in the West, but it can and should rightly be recognized as emerging in various ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The image of the existentialist as a cafe-dwelling, chain-smoking, beret-wearing intellectual type comes largely from Sartre ...

Pessimism is back. That will not surprise anyone who has been keeping track of the nation’s pulse over the past several months — or perhaps the last several years. Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech, ...

Unfortunately, the philosophy of existentialism is often regarded as passé. Nothing could be further from the truth, as Sarah Bakewell convinces us in her book, “At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, ...

This is the first in a new series of posts, on “Science and Philosophy," featuring interviews with influential scientists and philosophers of science. This is part 3 in an interview series with Bas ...

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