Philosophy is the quiet engine behind everything we think, question, and imagine. From Athens to Kyoto, from Königsberg to ...

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 ...

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, ...

Elon Musk gave insight into his "motivating philosophy" during an interview at the TED conference. The billionaire said he finds purpose in questioning reality and the meaning of life. Musk also ...

Dr. David M. Nixon, Ph.D. (Capitol Hill resident, philosophy professor, actor, musician, dancer, animator, painter, and member of local absurdist art pop theater band Awesome) has thought a lot about ...

Yuval Noah Harari, though trained as a historian, has become one of the world’s most widely read public thinkers. His ...

Engaging the thought of the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard, I challenge a tendency within the analytic tradition of philosophy on the subject of meaning in life. Taking as a starting point ...

I was raised as a Quaker, but around the age of 20 my faith faded. It would be easiest to say that this was because I took up philosophy – my lifelong occupation as a teacher and scholar. This is not ...

We raise various puzzles about the relationship between God (if God exists) and the meaning of life (if life has meaning). These difficulties suggest that, even if we ...

Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life, by John Gray (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 128 pages, $24) Parents sometimes say that nothing gives you more insight into the natural differences between ...