Difficulties such as loss and depression often make people question how their lives can be meaningful. Sometimes, they seek answers in mystical sayings, such as that everything happens for a reason ...

Psychological and philosophical studies have long shown that a person's subjective moods and emotions have a significant impact on how they experience the “meaning in life.” Philosopher Matthew ...

Research in language philosophy has long interrogated the interplay between normativity and meaning. Central debates focus on how linguistic practices are governed by norms that not only delineate ...

The life choices that had led me to be sitting in a booth underneath a banner that read "Ask a Philosopher"—at the entrance to the New York City subway at 57th and 8th—were perhaps random but ...

It is a cliché about philosophers that they ponder the meaning of life. They don’t. In the David Norton Memorial Lecture, scheduled for Friday, Sept. 16 in the University of Delaware’s Gore Hall, ...

Philosophy is more than just the pursuit of knowledge. It can empower and equip you to apply that knowledge and think it through with an understanding that, gaining knowledge and information is one ...