Attentive readers of this blog may have noticed that those who post comments to my entries often show two interesting and complementary attitudes: a fundamental distrust of (if not downright contempt ...

Marshall Abrams, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Philosophy, teaches about and conducts research on philosophy of science. The College of Arts and ...

When renowned scientists now talk seriously about millions of multiverses, the old question "are we alone?" gets a whole new meaning. Our ever-expanding universe is incomprehensibly large – and its ...

Scientists and philosophers have long been at one another’s throats over life’s big questions. Now a novelist with a foot in each camp wants to get Plato involved For some time now the discipline of ...

Popper influenced modern science. But are there limits to his ideas? Physicist Junichi Akiyama Graduate of Tohoku University ...

IN his recent presidential address to the British Institute of Philosophy, under the title “Philosophy and the Ordinary Man”, Sir Herbert Samuel pointed out that although all action and thought is the ...

Applied ontology studies how we define, structure and connect concepts so that people and systems understand information in the same way. Rooted in philosophy, it brings abstract thinking into ...

Examine complex problems, challenge ideas, and communicate clearly in RIT’s versatile philosophy degree. Dynamic Curriculum: Provides a thorough grounding in core areas of philosophy (history of ...

Attentive readers of this blog may have noticed that those who post comments to my entries often show two interesting and complementary attitudes: a fundamental distrust of (if not downright contempt ...