1. I’m 65 years old. My son, who is 32, has offered to pick up the groceries. But he has asthma. I’m in a quandary as to who should go? One of the leading ethical theories is “utilitarianism,” which ...

MacIntyre (1992): thanks to his work, few now doubt the importance of the tie that binds - Steve Pyke/Getty Images Professor Alasdair MacIntyre, who has died aged 96, was one of the most important ...

Hobbes is best known for Leviathan (1651), regarded as one of the most influential works in the history of political ...

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre, a philosopher renowned for his study of virtue-based ethics, and his work across the disciplines of philosophy, theology and politics, died May 21 at age 96. For MacIntyre ...

A University of Connecticut philosopher recently published a book about the ethics of artificial intelligence, or AI. The book, entitled “Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind”, was written ...

Patricia S. Churchland, the philosopher and neuroscientist, is sitting at a cafe on the Upper West Side, explaining the vacuousness, as she sees it, of a vast swath of contemporary moral philosophy.

Peter Monaghan’s survey of the film The Ister speaks about a more “nuanced” treatment of Heidegger’s role during the Nazi period (“Time and the River (and Heidegger),” The Chronicle, June 10). It is ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...