Dr. Alan Schlechter, author of "U Thrive: How to Succeed in College (And Life)," is also the professor of the most popular elective class at New York University called "The Science of Happiness." He ...

I notice how your author—or possibly your editor—leapt at the end from burnout as something which happens to some people to something which is happening to all communities in The University, and which ...

Our brain automatically assigns meaning[1]. It is not worth fighting it. We’d lose anyway. When our senses get into contact with anything, be it an object, an event, a person, or a situation, our ...

Philosophical Topics, Vol. 45, No. 2, Philosophy of Language (FALL 2017), pp. 65-96 (32 pages) This essay introduces the notion of practical meaning by looking at a certain kind of procedural ...

Philosophers and scientists have debated the issue of free will for centuries. In general, the consensus seems to be that there is no such thing. The problem is the premise of the debate. Those who ...