*Science fiction probably needs a better metaphysics. It would have something to do with the relationship of language to the passage of time. As for the "mythical and the mystical," I don't think ...

“ALL men by nature desire to know.” So begins the first book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, written about two and a half thousand years ago and still one of the most influential works of Western ...

Is physical science – as some people say – omnicompetent? Can it (that is) answer all possible questions? If, for instance, we ask why human beings sometimes behave so appallingly – or how we know ...

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, ...

Source: Unknown internet meme origin (posted by Philip Goff) As a philosopher of science, I have some minor obligation to say something when other philosophers share harmful misinformation about how ...

Dialectica, Vol. 14, No. 1, Discussion sur I'idée d'une philosophie d'inspiraion scientifique (15. 3. 1960), pp. 53-79 (27 pages) The scientist's basic question, « What is going on ? » shows that he ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. The Knowledge Encyclopedia reads: ...