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 ...

Ilario Colli is an Italian-Australian philosopher and author based in New York City, and he has embarked on an audacious intellectual mission. Colli—a former classical music journalist turned ...

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals in the deep scaffolding of the world: the nature of space, time, causation and existence, the foundations of reality itself. It’s generally ...

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 ...

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: ...

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life, by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman (Doubleday: 2022), 416 pages In 1956, Oxford University awarded former President Harry S ...

Ideas are a little submerged by biography – and soft furnishings – in this account of how Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley and Philippa Foot sought to refute logical positivism in ...

How Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot and Mary Midgley arrived at a radically new philosophical approach Metaphysical Animals is both story and argument. The story is a fine one.