I saw a talk not long ago by an eminent historian, who was discussing a major structural issue in modern American political culture (it was an off-the-record talk, and the specific content isn't that ...

Most universities boast “centres” or “institutes” designed to announce their strengths in a certain field. But there’s more to it than that: when a university establishes a new centre, it is making a ...

Editor’s Note: Natasha O’Hear is a lecturer at the Institute of Theology, the Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) at the University of St Andrews. She is co-author of Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of ...

The more people think they know about a topic in general, the more likely they are to allege knowledge of completely made-up information and false facts, a phenomenon known as 'overclaiming,' research ...

Knowledge can take many forms. There is “knowledge by acquaintance”, as in knowing a person or place. There is propositional knowledge, or “knowledge that” – for example, knowing that the UK voted to ...

Never in the history of mankind have humans enjoyed such an abundance of knowledge than in today’s digital age. Since the emergence of the internet, we have had unprecedented access to thousands of ...