What are, or should be, the limits of science? Through taking aim at these fundamental questions and engaging with intellectual giants, philosophy has taught me more about human nature than psychology ...

The philosopher, mathematician, and social reformer Bertrand Russell gives the inaugural Reith lectures, and in his first lecture, examines the role of impulses in human nature. Show more The ...

This introduction brings together a group of papers focusing on conservation theory and practice, and argues strongly for a new place-based conservation through a multispecies ... into environmental ...

"I Am the Nature" poetically plumbs the human interconnection with nature through the eyes of the Indigenous Achuar people.

The Philosophy Department offers a wide array of courses, from the broad (Society and the Individual, Introduction to Ethics, Theories of Human Nature) to the specialized (Political Philosophy, ...