Batchelor’s latest book is “Buddha, Socrates and Us: Ethical Living in Uncertain Times.” There he draws on a different ...

A Socratic seminar is a student-led discussion format used primarily in middle and high school classrooms where participants engage deeply with a text—ranging from literature to songs or artwork—prior ...

Agnes Callard doesn’t only study and teach philosophy—she lives it. Whether debating a friend over dinner, leading a late-night discussion in Hyde Park, or questioning her own beliefs in print, she ...

Abstract: More than 2.,400 years ago, the Greek philosopher Socrates invented an original method of understanding new concepts based on dialogues with his students. This method has been used by ...

Every few months, out of curiosity, I red-pill myself. Usually, I start with YouTube. The algorithm is extraordinarily responsive: give a couple of videos a thumbs-up, and your whole feed swerves in a ...

Review of Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life. By Agnes Callard. W.W. Norton & Company. 405 pp. $35. Many of us know that Socrates declared that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” ...

Dialogue has always been at the core of human culture and understanding. Across ages and societies, it’s been around campfires, at dinner tables, or in the roundtable discussions of philosophers and ...

The importance of questioning in the classroom cannot be overstated, as it is a fundamental tool for fostering engagement, critical thinking, and deeper understanding. According to Patrícia Albergaria ...