In his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, E.O. Wilson laid out a grand vision for how the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities might be coherently interrelated. Given how ...

A few years ago, while I was pursuing my Ph.D. at the University of Sydney, the philosopher Liam Kofi Bright wrote a ...

Synthese spans the topics of Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Coverage includes the theory of knowledge; general methodological problems of science, of induction and probability, ...

Two heads may be better than one, but in this case, many noggins still haven’t produced a solution. The problem of the repugnant conclusion is a pesky one that philosophers have worked on for decades.

THIS book well represents the remarkable change which has come over the study of philosophy within living memory. People who studied philosophy at one of our universities thirty or forty years ago ...

THE old idea of metaphysics, that it marks a stage of human intellectual activity when, dissatisfied with a primitive anthropomorphic pro jection of images which peopled the unseen world with gods and ...

(Click on name above for office hours and contact information.) Meeting time: Thursdays 2:30-5:20. Topics and questions will include: Humeanism versus primitivism about laws of nature, determinism, ...

One important aspect of twentieth-century philosophy is the rise of what has been variously called “analytic,” “critical,” or “linguistic” philosophy. As in most such cases, no exact date can be ...

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CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Traditional and contemporary theories of meaning. The connection between language, thought and reality. 3 units. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Philosophers are interested in language for ...