Great colleges and universities prepare students for the future by teaching them how to think — not what to think. That’s why public institutions must firmly uphold academic freedom and First Amendmen...

The US Ambassador to Belgium has condemned Ghent University’s suspension of Nathan Cofnas in the “strongest terms”. “The United States government regularly funds and supports research, academic exchan...

One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the…

As for Fall 2027, incoming students at the University of Wyoming will no longer be allowed to major in philosophy. The news was shared by philosophy professor Bradley Rettler in posts on social media....

The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics, knowledge and human nature—are accessible for the first time since 79 C.E...

Analysis of shark DNA has thrown a wrench into our understanding of these sharp-toothed predators March 25, 2026 Evolutionary biologists compared the DNA of different sharks to one another, and also t...

Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights after they told him he would h...

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LAWRENCE, Kan.—Today, faculty and academic staff at the University of Kansas, represented by United Academics of the University of Kansas, announced that they have reached a tentative first contract a...

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In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.

A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist

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Abstract. The societal effects of children’s learning in cultural evolution have been underexplored. Here, we investigate using agent-based models how a pr

Many studies find that young preschoolers do not deploy logical concepts like or or possibly in the 3- and 4-container tasks. Gautam et al. (2021) rep…

Vigorous debate has erupted over the trustworthiness of scientific research findings in a number of domains. The question “what makes research find...

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Visual attention has an undeniable impact on our perception. Human brain is unable to process all of the information it faces with in a scene so, the most sa...

Nature Neuroscience - Parcellation of the cortex into functionally modular brain areas is foundational to neuroscience. Here, Hayden, Heilbronner and Yoo question the central status of brain areas...

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Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.

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Jonathan Caravello, a professor at CSU Channel Islands, was among one of the more than 200 people arrested from the federal agent’s raid of Glass House Farms’ operations in both Carpinteria and Camari...

Editors-in-Chief Michael C. Frank and Asifa Majid share their vision for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science as it surpasses 100 published articles.

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