Philosophy

Agree to disagree

We should not let pride dominate discussions.

By Virgilio Urbina Lazardi | Nov 3 07:51 pm ET

What to do with CC? See for yourself

The way to be free from emotional paralysis is to begin searching for the answers.

By Jelani Harvey | Sep 14 07:04 pm ET

An expert on nothing

Most undergrads aren’t experts in academic fields.

By Yurina Ko | Apr 27 06:52 pm ET

Frontiers of philosophy

“Even professional scientists,” Albert Einstein remarked, “seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.” When he said this in 1944, he was referring to a type of “independence created by philosophical insight” that scientists should consider diving into more often. It’s also been a wonder to me why academic institutions, including Columbia, separate the sciences from philosophy as strictly distinct disciplines, when both sides could actually grow more intellectually by communicating and overlapping a little more.

By Yurina Ko | Jan 26 10:13 pm ET

Veritable discussions

Much time is spent deconstructing philosophies and religions that prescribe answers to the big questions, which is fine, but where does one go to begin constructing one’s own ideas?

By Jacob N. Tadros | Oct 29 06:51 pm ET

A defense of the examined life

Without questioning the basic tenets of your life, you run the dire risk of being completely mistaken about the nature of the universe and yourself.

By Evan Burger | Sep 28 08:02 pm ET

Why not wonder?

The students here flinch, smirk, nod, or raise their eyebrows when I tell them that I am a philosophy major.

By Yurina Ko | Sep 20 07:32 pm ET

Admissions essay: Evan Burger

Put simply, I was forever changed by the concepts elucidated in Walden. I must have heard of the book before, but I never expected what I discovered inside.

By Evan Burger | Sep 20 03:57 pm ET

Before you go

At our very own Columbia, we want every science class to remind us of the grand questions instead of letting us slip into the mentality that science is something only to be crunched out on paper.

By Adrian Haimovich and Vedant Misra | Apr 14 10:36 pm ET

Everyone, Let’s Drop Out of School

It’s April!

By | Mar 31 08:12 pm ET

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