Regardless of the actual utility of philosophy, there is no question that the discipline is often criticised for lacking practical relevance. As a second-year…
DUBAI: A century ago, as humanity emerged from the privations of the First World War and the Spanish flu, a wave of creative energy suddenly swept the globe. From London to New York and from Sydney to Tokyo, the decade known as the Roaring Twenties heralded an age of unprecedented cultural exuberance, prosperity and industrial advances. New technologies, from automobiles to
The Arab world has had long-standing but long forgotten influences on philosophical and scientific thinking. Could it become a new hub of free thinking? Perhaps it is premature to think so far ahead