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New York Times: 'The revenge of the philosophy major'
The paper's July piece examined how philosophy, long dismissed as the subject that leads nowhere, has regained standing in the job market.
World Desk · 20 August 2026
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The paper's July piece examined how philosophy, long dismissed as the subject that leads nowhere, has regained standing in the job market.
World Desk · 20 August 2026
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'The Age of Revolutions', the next volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, is out in November. The third book in his children's series Unstoppable Us appeared in February.
Yuval Noah Harari
'Tempting Fate', published by Princeton University Press, proposes a theory that explains risk through fragility rather than probability. Pritchard's example is Alex Honnold's ropeless ascent of El Capitan.
Duncan Pritchard
The Journal of Mathematical Philosophy, published by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU, has begun accepting submissions on a 'diamond' open-access model that charges neither authors nor readers.
'The Basics of Philosophy', directed by Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, screens out of competition at the Venice Film Festival on 4 September. At its centre is a philosophy professor living with the guilt of a decision made long ago.
Sir Anthony Kenny, the English philosopher known for his work on medieval philosophy, Aquinas and Wittgenstein, died on 3 August at the age of 95. A former Master of Balliol College, he was best known for his four-volume history of philosophy.
Anthony Kenny
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, one of the three great figures of German idealism, died at Bad Ragaz in Switzerland on 20 August 1854. He had taken over Hegel's chair in Berlin.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
The mathematician, physicist and thinker Blaise Pascal died on 19 August 1662 at the age of thirty-nine. What survived was the notes for an unfinished book: the Pensées.