The modern scientific world prides itself on precision, empirical rigour, and the pursuit of measurable truth. Yet, some of ...

In the first half of the semester, we will discuss philosophical problems of classical mechanics and classical field theories: the persistence of matter, modality, the representation of mechanical ...

WEEKEND EDITION essayist Tim Brookes recently tackled a whole remodeling project. There were problems, of course, but Tim found a solution. TIM BROOKES: My wife, Barbara, decided to move her therapy ...

Ilario Colli is an Italian-Australian philosopher and author based in New York City, and he has embarked on an audacious intellectual mission. Colli—a former classical music journalist turned ...

Galileo is generally credited with being the father of modern science. As this lecture aptly describes, he completely eschewed metaphysics and got along with the business of empirically and ...

German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s angst-ridden non-answer to what he called “the fundamental question” was that a fear of nothing was the defining feature of the human condition. We certainly seem ...

THE impossibility of eliminating the relations of complementarity from atomic physics is not a question of opinion but a simple logical point, as devoid of obscurity, as, for example, the ...