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While students may expect organic chemistry at the California Institute of Technology and advanced topics in quantum mechanics at Stanford University to be among the hardest college classes in the ...

Philosophy professors in the United States have all heard of Confucius and the Daoist Laozi. Many have also heard of their approximate contemporaries in ancient China: the later Confucians Mencius and ...

Felicia Nimue Ackerman, a monthly contributor, is a professor of philosophy at Brown University. If you've never studied philosophy, maybe you wonder what happens in a philosophy course. Different ...

SOUTH HADLEY –Professor of philosophy Thomas E. Wartenberg says that young children are natural-born philosophers. “They are interested in many of the fundamental questions of philosophy because they ...

Sitting in one of Wellesley College professor Julie Walsh’s most in-demand classes — “Philosophy and Witchcraft” — you might envision historic Salem and conjure up the image of a witch trial. But ...

Four years. You have strived, sweated and succeeded. You have made friends and memories to last a lifetime. You have come so far. To recognize this achievement, we are pleased to present the list of ...