The philosopher, who has died aged 96, was often caricatured as a consensus-seeking liberal. But his belief in the need for shared understanding had a radical underpinning, says German philosopher Eva ...

Jürgen Habermas, who has died aged 96, was the most important German philosopher of the post-war era, though one whose abstruse and cumbersome style meant that he was never an easy read.

Humiliation is a serpent with poisonous fangs. The toxic teeth of an unjustified humiliation sting the victim with a particularly sharp edge, leaving him writhing in a pain that takes an eternity to ...

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A century after Erwin Schrödinger sketched out a bold vision for how we perceive color, scientists have finally filled in the missing pieces. A Los Alamos team used advanced geometry to show that hue, ...

The world is full of theories of everything. The smartphone theory of everything argues that our personal devices are responsible for the rise of political polarization, anxiety, depression, and ...