The idea that an a priori metaphysics must first provide a conceptual framework for science to work at all, to be able to reveal truths about reality, is, as the philosopher Don Ross has aptly put it, ...

Source: Image created with Chat-GPT Is metaphysics (the study of the ultimate foundation of reality) useful? I will argue that a substantive part of the literature is not - or what we call analytic ...

“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 ...

Elias Zafiris holds an M.Sc. (Distinction) in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College, University of London, and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Imperial College. He is ...

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research was founded in 1940 by Marvin Farber, who edited it for forty years. Since 1980 it has been at Brown, where it has been edited by Roderick Chisholm and then, ...

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: ...

Pregnancy is astonishing; it’s just that no-one has noticed. Well, that’s not entirely true, but in the exacting world of analytic philosophy, the idea of one becoming two hasn’t quite taken hold.

What is language? What is beauty? Who gets to decide? Philosophers have grappled with these questions for centuries, and they've generated a pile of long (and often tortured) books in their efforts to ...