Galileo is generally credited with being the father of modern science. As this lecture aptly describes, he completely eschewed metaphysics and got along with the business of empirically and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Much seems to be at stake in metaphysical questions about, for example, God, free will or morality. One thing that could be at stake is the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: Hello, and welcome to The Philosopher's Zone. I'm Alan Saunders. This week we're looking ...

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, ...

“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 ...

The COVID crisis throws into relief what happens when grief has—quite literally—nowhere to go. The evidence suggests that most people summon strengths that surpass their own expectations. Galileo is ...

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.