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 ...

Considers philosophical topics and concepts related to the natural sciences, such as: science and pseudo-science; scientific method; the nature of explanation, theory, confirmation, and falsification; ...

The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) promotes research into philosophical, methodological and foundational questions arising in the natural and the social sciences.

This is a review of: Anneliese Griese, Hans Jörg Sandkühler (Hrsg.) [Eds.], Karl Marx–Zwischen Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften [Karl Marx–between philosophy and the natural sciences], Frankfurt/M.

Why did you choose LSE and the programme? The philosophy department at the LSE has some of the best philosophers of our time and is renowned for its rich historical contribution to philosophy of ...

Noel Swanson, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. His research areas include philosophy of physics philosophy of science, and logic. “On the ...

Your perceptive article rightly contends that physics (and probably any area of human understanding) can’t be done without metaphysics. This is because of the questions that are unavoidably raised ...