The sophisticated language Plato wrote in gave way to a simplified "common" Greek—and with it, a simplified psychology. We inherited a twice-flattened concept of mind.

The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle both wrote about love. More than two millennia later, their teachings ...

The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.

A landmark work by Nigeria’s first female philosophy professor compares Socrates' philosophy with Yoruba sage Ọ̀rúnmìlà ...

Plato's philosophy of Forms suggested there are perfect, eternal, unchanging realities that exist beyond the physical world — ideals of beauty, justice and knowledge. Venus echoes the sentiment in the ...

The best-selling author grapples with big questions about A.I., consciousness and the distractions polluting our minds.

We named the discipline after the Greek psyche, not the Latin anima—because the Latin word couldn't carry the meaning. But ...

“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And ...