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 ...

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 ...

I was seven or eight years old. In Hebrew school we had just learned the Aleph-Bet and were, haltingly, beginning to sound out words. As we spoke the ancient text, our teacher translated: "... And God ...

Thanks for clicking on the title of such an abstract-sounding blog! I hope that you will find what follows to be a clear articulation of important pieces of psychology’s history and that it explains ...

Friedrich Nietzsche drew no distinction between Socrates and Plato in his diagnosis of the origin of philosophy and metaphysics. My argument will lean heavily on the scholarship of Gregory Vlastos to ...

The purpose of Aquinas's Ethics is to place Thomas Aquinas's moral theory in its full philosophical and theological context and to do so in a way that makes Aquinas (1224/5-1274) readily accessible to ...

IN preparing this new edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Prof. Ross has performed an arduous and a valuable service. From many points of view the Metaphysics may be regarded as the hardest nut which ...

Dr. Justice Chandradasa Nanayakkara, who makes valuable contributions to Buddhist literature in these columns, has written another excellent article under the above caption (The Island, 10.07.2025), ...