With this novum organum, philosophers hoped to slice through thorny problems in metaphysics and epistemology, and to model philosophy after the exact sciences. We will look at how mathematical logic ...

What is reality made of? How do we know we exist, or if God exists? Join us as we test nine fundamental questions against the best scientific knowledge ...

Sir Peter Strawson, emeritus Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy, has shaped the development in philosophy for over forty-five ...

Her book will be important for scholars of Nietzsche's metaphysics, and of the history of philosophy and science more generally. ‘With clarity, verve, and philosophical sophistication, Tsarina Doyle ...

Neil Williams is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, and Department Chair. His work is in the metaphysics of science (causal powers especially) and includes publications in ...

She is also the author of Free Will: A Philosophical Study and the editor of Agency and Responsibility: Essays on the Metaphysics of Freedom. Her articles on autonomy, moral responsibility, causation, ...

Philosophy is an ancient discipline, which probably began as early as human civilization, that sought knowledge of all things on earth and in heaven. Knowledge of natural things and their causes lead ...

Studying philosophy involves learning about its history and methods as well as its subdisciplines - metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, philosophy of law, aesthetics, philosophy ...

The strengths of Brandeis University's Master of Arts Program in Philosophy lie in a number of subfields - metaphysics and epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of language ...