it serves a synthetic approach to philosophy that is “largely a matter of trying to put things together, trying to get the pieces of very large puzzles to make sense,” as Peter Godfrey-Smith states.

Celebrate Smith’s birthday today by giving one of those essays a read. A modern student writes about the pioneering Scottish philosopher and economist. Smith once fabricated a historical ...

A rare book annotated by Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith is to go on display in his home town in Fife. The book by philosopher John Locke, Two Treatises of Civil Government ...

The essential feature of capitalism is the motive to make a profit. As Adam Smith, the 18th century philosopher and father of modern economics, said: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, ...