Reflection has been defined as the 'active, persistent and careful consideration of any belief, or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it and the further conclusion to ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein was once asked, “What is your aim in philosophy?” His answer: “To show the fly the way out of the fly bottle.” The goal is not to provide more rules or better solutions, but to ...

That's a famous line in Federalist No. 51, generally attributed to James Madison—but not quite. The line is actually, in context, But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several ...