Conservatives today often denigrate a concern with economic inequality as a deviant left-wing preoccupation. In fact, from ...

Taylor Swift's music connects with philosophy in many places: What is love? What is the value of negative emotions like anger, heartbreak and grief? Is there a moral obligation to speak out against ...

Stanford community members remain divided over California’s recent ban on legacy preferences in admissions, citing mental health impacts, alumni donations and admissions equity in their support ...

Stanford Medicine physician Dr. Bryant Lin is the perfect professor to teach the course “From Diagnosis to Dialogue: A Doctor's Real-Time Battle with Cancer” at Stanford. And that’s not ...

By Michael S. Rosenwald Philip G. Zimbardo, a towering figure in social psychology who explored how good people turn evil in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, which devolved into chaos ...

Read: Philosophy could have been a lot more fun Now that we’ve defined how a Platonist sees the world and how an Aristotelian does, which are you in the way you live? The answer will depend on ...

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies plays an active role in several university-wide, national, and international research and educational consortiums — in addition to housing the ...

The Stanford prison experiment, a prison simulation that took place over two weeks in 1971, forever shifted the field of psychology and its interpretation of human nature. Now, a new docuseries by ...

“Most people go about their daily life assuming that they have more control over their behavior than they actually do,” wrote a young psychology professor at Stanford University in 1971.

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) was the most accomplished and successful composer to come out of Ireland in the 19th century. He was a major force in English musical life, as professor of ...