Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 was published over seventy years ago, in 1953, and yet continues to be a source of ...

I had only come across Henri Bergson recently—a friend had fleetingly mentioned that his text on memory was difficult to grasp, perhaps.

In 1878, Bergson left the Lycée Condorcet and won entry to the École Normale Supérieure, the most exclusive university in ...

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Held in RK Narayan’s sleepy small town of Malgudi, the festival will feature some of the greatest writers ever – from William ...

One example, Shaw says, is how he found a solution to the problem of false beliefs put forward by noted Western philosopher Bertrand Russell in a book titled The Problems of Philosophy. "Russell ...

As a discipline, philosophy has always dealt with existential questions of life, society and the sciences. Interestingly, modern philosophical thought has come to be dominated by Western thinkers, ...

Those familiar with game theory will probably know the game of ‘chicken’. But few are aware that the metaphor was formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, who wrote: ...

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Limitations of space make it impracticable to notice them separately; but some account may be given of the picture of Russell and his philosophy which emerges from the work as a whole.

He's a thinker, Howard tells us. But it's not a brag, more a mundane description of a comic's life; he has a thought, and then works out how to make it funny. It's not difficult, or onerous, and he's ...