BERKELEY — Baxter Wood is one of Hubert Dreyfus’ most devoted students. During lectures on existentialism, Wood hangs on every word, savoring the moments when the 78-year-old philosophy professor ...

John Macquarrie, one of the most influential and prolific theologians of the 20th century, died May 28, a few weeks short of his 88th birthday. Walking the boundary between existential philosophy and ...

German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s “Being and Time” is the topic of the fall Franke Lectures in the Humanities sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC). This semester’s series has been ...

Philosophy takes up fundamental questions and probes the conceptual underpinnings of our thinking about the world, human affairs, ethics, science, and more. Studying philosophy exercises and improves ...

The literary lion of Paris bounced into Manhattan last week for a brief lecture tour (stops at Yale, Harvard, Princeton). He put up at a genteel midtown hotel—partly because he could find no other ...