There is a growing consensus among social scientists and philosophers alike that a sense of life’s meaning and purpose is a key aspect of flourishing, and one that is not reducible either to happiness ...

Author Bill McKibben's 1989 book, "The End of Nature," was one of the most influential early warnings about the impact of global warming. Now, he has shifted to different ground, warning about the ...

Many of the people working to revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act have argued that the brain-based definition of death should be maintained because whole-brain death is the death of a human ...