Surrealist artists at the first Surrealist Exhibition to be held in London. Back row, from left, are Rupert Lee, Ruthven Todd, Salvador Dali, Paul Eluard, Roland Penrose, Herbert Read, E LT Mesens, George Reavey and Hugh Sykes-Davies. Front row, from left, Diana Lee, Nusch Eluard, Eileen Agar, Sheila Legge and unknown.

Surrealism at 100: A Reading List

...directions, such as Koga Harue, who replicated depictions of scientific innovations in his paintings, and Zhao Shou, who involved Eastern philosophy in his approach to the avant-garde. Sheryl Conkelton, “American...
A cover for The Power of Non-violence by Richard Gregg

Richard Gregg: An American Pioneer of Nonviolence Remembered 

By 1957, Martin Luther King Jr. was the nation’s best-known practitioner of nonviolent direct action. That year, he was asked to name the five texts that most influenced him. He...
Portrait of Aldous Huxley, 1920s

When Aldous Huxley Dropped Acid

...artist, embarked on a journey that left a lasting mark on philosophy, literature, and our understanding of the human mind. Support JSTOR Daily! Join our membership program on Patreon today....
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Astronomers Have Warned against Colonial Practices in the Space Industry

The past decade has seen a rapid expansion of the commercial space industry. Rival nations are competing for prime military and economic positions beyond the Earth. Public and private entities...
A flat boulder raised on a pinnacle of ice, by Louis Haghe after J.D. Forbes

How Sports Shaped Glacier Science

...critic John Ruskin. Their debate cut to the heart of scientific philosophy. Forbes believed that “science depended upon observations distilled into quantitative laws,” writes Hevly, while Hopkins believed that the...
Illustration of ancient Greek market with Acropolis in background

Economics in Ancient Greece

...Leshem writes, was to channel more resources toward allowing male, land-owning citizens to engage in “the spiritual realm of philosophy” and the “heroic realm of politics.” Citizens were encouraged to...
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9 Ways to Create an “Intellectually Humble” Classroom

...learning from them in kind. 4. Incorporate more disciplinary perspectives in our classrooms. I once took a bioethics course taught by a professor of philosophy who anchored it only in...
An image from the cover of I have more fun with you than anybody by Lige Clarke

Gay Radicalism, Made in Kentucky

...ideas. They moved to New York, sharing an apartment with lesbian civil rights leaders Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin. There, Clarke embraced yoga, Buddhist philosophy, vegetarianism, and LSD. He jokingly...
Rosalind Franklin with microscope in 1955

Rosalind Franklin’s Methods of Discovery

...evidence of sexism in the history of science, writes Michelle G. Gibbons in Philosophy of Science. But she argues that Franklin’s story has additional significance—it forces us to reevaluate our...
Digital generated image of futuristic cubes connecting.

Why Architects Need Philosophy to Guide the AI Design Revolution

...the sciences and philosophy. Looking to the future, tomorrow’s architects will need to be equipped with transdisciplinary tools such as Neuro-Techno-Philosophy, a framework I have introduced to understand the AI-neuroscience-philosophy...