Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. In his 16 ...

In my roughly 10 years of philosophical education — four in college, one in a master’s program and five as a PhD candidate — it never occurred to me that Plato was a person. Of course, I read and ...

Plato of Athens (429–347 BC) may be one of the most famous philosophers of all times. He was the thinker who came up with the "theory of forms" and founded the first academic institution. Yet we know ...