Philosophy, the pursuit of wisdom, is anchored by two profound inquiries: epistemology, the study of knowledge, and ontology, the study of being .

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Cognitive behavioral therapy can help improve quality of life in medical illness. But myths about what this means persist.

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The most common crop in the US is not wheat or corn, but lawn grass. From the gardens of Versailles to suburban America, why are well-manicured lawn central to our cultural identity?

Yilin Wang, winner of this year’s prestigious Salem Prize, speaks French, avoids the spotlight, and is ‘not a big fan’ of ...

The first to publish any equation in a transparent, recognizably modern symbolic form were [Thomas] Harriot's executors in 1631, and then [René] Descartes in an appendix to his 1637 "Discourse on ...

Sixties protesters didn’t share my interests.