“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 ...

*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 ...

By Somnath Sarkar What is the brouhaha over AI tech and deepfakes, which seems to go back to a timeless zone? Long before the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Analytic Metaphysics, Metametaphysics, Metaphysics of Science, Philosophy of Science (physics, chemistry, biology), Epistemology, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Computation & AI, Philosophy of ...

A new book on John Tyndall and 19th century scientific naturalism raises questions that are still relevant to how we communicate science and authority today Most people are familiar with some ...