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Stephen Hawking was perfectly in line with the ancient philosophers when he acknowledged that physics points to the deeper questions of metaphysics. Indeed, when questions stop becoming scientific, ...

Metaphysics has never had a “fun” reputation. Many people—if they’ve even heard of the M-word— tend to associate it with woozy, abstract lectures about time and space that spiral into confusion and ...

Philosophy was classically concerned not just with non-empirical matters such as morality but also with the empirical study of reality. Thus theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking and ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Promoting academic literacy on non-Western traditions of philosophy, Philosophy East and West has for over half a century published ...

Sir Peter Strawson, emeritus Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy, has shaped the development in philosophy for over forty-five ...

Encountering philosophy as an undergraduate in 1959 was a wonderful and astonishing experience. That was the year in which two philosophical works appeared whose impact on the discipline was out of ...