Isolation from the outside world has driven some of Orhan Pamuk’s most important works. In The White Castle (1985), an Ottoman pasha and his Venetian slave in the seventeenth century retreat to a ...

“Manifestation” is a term for describing a way of making your dreams come true. It involves immersing yourself in an imagined or visualized scene, so you feel you are living that reality and are ...

Dr. Martin Picard is an associate professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, specializing in both psychiatry and neurology. Together, expertise in these two fields ...

The Philosophy Department is pleased to announce the appointment of two Gadamer Chairs who are scheduled to visit Boston College in the near future. In Spring 2021 [COVID restrictions permitting] ...

In 1962, when she was still in middle school in a coastal town of Japan, the cartoonist Kuniko Tsurita sent a despairing letter to The City, a popular comics magazine. Manga was her life. The ...

What do you do when faced with tough decisions? Many of us feel worried, anxious, overwhelmed or even paralyzed because we imagine what might happen if things do not work out as planned. On the one ...

Philosophy goes where hard science can’t, or won’t. Philosophers have a license to speculate about everything from metaphysics to morality, and this means they can shed light on some of the basic ...