Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Fred L. Smith Jr. Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. This week, the Federal Communications Commission and Chairman ...

Speak like an insider! Welcome to Snopes-tionary, where we'll define a term or piece of fact-checking lingo that we use on the Snopes team. Have a term you want us to explain? Let us know. Also known ...

Speak like an insider! Welcome to Snopestionary, where we’ll define a term or piece of fact-checking lingo that we use on the Snopes team. Have a term you want us to explain? Let us know. The red ...

In an era of “post-truth” and “truthiness,” it can be hard to defend the common-sense belief that reality exists independently of how people think about it. Skepticism about reality comes in many ...

The Consolations of Philosophy Alain de Botton Hamish Hamilton, £14.99, 265pp Buy it at BOL Once, in Portugal, Alain de Botton found that he could not make love with his girlfriend. It could have been ...

It would save teachers a lot of time and classroom quarreling if students were given a basic introduction to logical fallacies. That way, when the students fell to using one of the fallacies ...

Director of the Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences and Senior Lecturer at the School of Philosophy, Australian National University But to a philosopher like me, more vexing than these calculated ...

Also known as the “is-ought” fallacy, this refers to a logical fallacy wherein people falsely derive moral values regarding what is right or wrong based on certain objective natural facts. A person ...

This refers to the fallacy of assuming that only what is morally good can be a part of nature. In other words, whatever is considered to be morally wrong is assumed to be unnatural by people ...