To any question you can ask, there’s apparently already an answer; in fact, there seem to be more answers than questions. Long before you’ve decided what you want to know, you’re told what you should ...

Far fewer of us understand the essential features of “The Socratic Method ... especially when one person asks probing questions and his or her interlocutor responds candidly.

Philosophers are constitutively irritating: this is both their great power and their greatest weakness. Imagine the kind of person that gets stuck, for decades, in the “why?” phase through which ...

Running through a series of paradoxes, Callard points out how difficult it is, for example ... questions are mutated into zero sum games. Callard is quite right, and her Socratic conclusion ...

The incident has drawn attention from the government and conservative factions. Iran's theocratic government summoned a high-profile footballer for interrogation after footage appeared online ...