Difficulties such as loss and depression often make people question how their lives can be meaningful. Sometimes, they seek answers in mystical sayings, such as that everything happens for a reason ...

Academic philosophy may have steered us away from understanding what the word philosophy literally means—the love of wisdom.

Psychological and philosophical studies have long shown that a person's subjective moods and emotions have a significant impact on how they experience the “meaning in life.” Philosopher Matthew ...

Scott Samuelson, a professor of philosophy at Kirkwood Community College, will appear at Prairie Lights tonight to read his latest book from the University of Chicago Press, Seven Ways of Looking at ...

The meaning of philosophy is deeply linked to reconciliation. And reconciliation to the world as it is today is no longer possible. Living unreconciled opens the way for rejection. Yet, rejection can ...