Understanding Society

Science proceeds through research communities whose participants share important and often distinctive features of thought and method. This ...

Historical research may seem to be a field in which AI tools will be especially useful. Historians are often confronted with very large unst...

  A prior  post  made an effort to gain greater analytical clarity concerning the unfairness involved in the separation between the “one per...

  Much thinking about economic justice for working people has been framed by the nineteenth-century concept of “capitalism”: owners of enter...

Philip Pettit’s writings about republicanism offer a valuable and distinctive perspective on individual freedom and the nature of a good soc...