Helen Coffey, The Independent Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man, the Greek philosopher Aristotle ...

Two mathematicians worked out that even if all the world's chimps were given the entire lifespan of the universe, they wouldn ...

"On one hand, we have Aristotle's theory of Form and Matter, which proposed that everything in the natural world is made up ...

Then came the Italian polymath Galileo Galilei, who corrected Aristotle's false claim by showing that two objects with different masses fall at exactly the same rate. Some claim Galileo's famous ...

Carl Sagan explained the thought process of the ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes, who determined the circumference of the Earth.

In recent news cycles, there has been a persistent and growing narrative that Trump's appearances are undisciplined , ...

It's the time of year when shiny horses and colorful clothing fill our screens—the Spring Racing Carnival, which includes high profile races like The Everest, Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate.

Stratification theories layer the natural world from the inanimate to the animate to the animal to the human. They used to be ...

In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives this example of how the process works: “By abstaining from pleasures we become temperate, and it is when we have become so that we are most able to abstain from ...

Heather Craig is a passionate writer with a Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) from La Trobe University (2009). She is currently enrolled in a Masters of Philosophy, at Monash University.

His famous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment was halted after six days when some students became psychologically abusive. Stanford said the experiment was now used to study the psychology of evil ...

Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91.