Can Intellectual Humility Save Us from Ourselves?
Intellectual humility is defined as a willingness to admit you’re wrong. It could be just the idea for our self-righteous times.
What Is Intellectual Humility?
Almost all of us are far more confident in ourselves than we probably should be. If we humbly admit this, does it improve how we deal with conflict?
Second Opinions: On Intellectual Humility and Medicine
What happens when doctors admit they don't know everything?
What if AI Operated with Intellectual Humility?
In the race between humans and machines, imagine a future in which everyone and everything wins.
Doing Math with Intellectual Humility
Math class is an opportunity to teach students both how to use conjecture to arrive at knowledge and how to learn from the logic of peers.
Drinking with Intellectual Humility
What happens when you mix alcohol with intellectual humility? A philosopher asks a writer and former bartender to share her thoughts.
Come Let Us Argue: Faith and Intellectual Humility
Can belief in the divine endure in an individual who possesses an openness to being wrong? How do doubt and faith co-exist among the religious?
Angela Proctor on the “Opinions Regarding Slavery: Slave Narratives” Collection
We spoke with Angela Proctor, head archivist at Southern University, about the collections of slave narratives compiled by John B. Cade from 1929-1935.
Writing Poetry in Prison as an Act of Resistance
A writer recounts her uncle's experiences writing poetry in prison and advocating for Indigenous rights. His death and his typewriter are intertwined.
Tchaikovsky’s Patroness
Madame von Meck offered Tchaikovsky her generous patronage, but spoke to him only through letters.