My first semester as a graduate student at San Jose State University reassured me that pursuing a career in academic...

What happens when we stop thinking of people as people and start thinking of them as statistics? In an increasingly...

[Revised entry by Tim O’Keefe on November 19, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] From at least Aristotle onwards, ancient...

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing,” wrote Oscar Wilde....

The capacity for the practice of blaming roots itself deep in the core of the human condition. “Core” here should...

[Revised entry by Erland Sellberg on November 19, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] While Petrus Ramus (1515 – 1572)...

[Revised entry by Kenneth Seeskin on November 18, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Moses ben Maimon [known to English...

[Revised entry by Katia D. Hay on November 18, 2024. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] August W. Schlegel (Sept. 5,...