Does following your passion mean giving up on the idea of living a balanced life?

Both Stephen Hawking and Martin Rees have expressed optimism about the role of science and technology in resolving humanity’s overarching questions and problems. Vision reviews their recent books.

From genes to geophysics, our world is increasingly what we make it. But environmental philosopher Christopher Preston urges restraint.

The world seems no closer to defining truth today than the ancient philosophers were. And yet we cannot do without it.

We live at the dawn of a new “Enlightenment.” Only this one has little to do with reason and rationalism.

Though we’d all like to believe otherwise, our views and opinions may not stem from sound thinking. How can we ensure that wisdom prevails?

Propaganda is about manipulation. But over the past century, the concept itself has been manipulated. Do you still recognize it when you see it?

Since at least the time of Homer and his epic account of the Trojan War, people have glorified warfare and reveled in it as entertainment.

Today’s debate between methods of attaining knowledge—one divinely revealed, the other gained by rational inquiry—is a significant aspect of Aristotle’s legacy.