Dr. Callard is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago and the author of “Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming.” If a group of math students fails to learn the material, that ...

If we have any hope of resuscitating fields like English and history, we must rescue the humanities from the utilitarian appraisals that both their champions and their critics subject them to. We need ...

Thinking of “sciences” and “humanities” as unrelated modes of inquiry is not only shortsighted; it’s new to western ...

Rice University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. With all the conspiracy theories floating around in 2020 when COVID-19 hit, I wanted to help my students learn to identify and deal ...

I spend my days thinking and writing and teaching about purpose. I’m a theologian, so officially I think and write and teach about God and God-related things. But I understand my vocation as having ...