This course is available on the MSc in Political Theory. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. Optional for MSc ...

Mainstream economics has long struggled to model ethical behaviour, including what is perhaps its simplest type, altruism. The standard assumption of homo economicus, an agent who maximizes his ...

Pioneering social and political justice champion Reverend Jesse Jackson died last week at the age of 84 after living for more than a decade with a progressive neurological condition. His passing ...

Calling German philosopher Immanuel Kant’s ethics “terribly poor,” Chinese philosophy scholar Han Dongping has become the target of criticism for an article with a bold yet somewhat overweening title.

MOSCOW — An argument in southern Russia over philosopher Immanuel Kant, the author of “Critique of Pure Reason,” devolved into pure mayhem when one debater shot the other. A police spokeswoman in ...

The debate ended in gunfire between the two. Kant we all just get along? A police spokeswoman in Rostov-on Don said the men, both in their 20s, were discussing Kant (perhaps his best-known "Critique ...

IN this work Prof. Hastie has not only given us a very readable book, but has written an important chapter in the history of astronomy. His main object is to make us recognise in Kant a profound ...

Game theory explains competitive behavior by working from the premise that people are self-interested. People don’t just compete, however; they also cooperate. In “How We Cooperate,” John Roemer ...