In an excellent course on the great questions of philosophy, the philosophical psychologist Dan Robinson frames the enterprise of philosophy in terms of the “long debate” about three central questions ...

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Recently, as a result of my most recent book, A Universe from Nothing, I participated in a wide-ranging and in-depth interview for The Atlantic on questions ranging from the nature of nothing to the ...

Jacob A. Barandes is a senior preceptor in physics and associated faculty in philosophy. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: You’re from New York, and you’ve since moved to ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I have never bumped into Tim Maudlin, but I ...

“What is philosophy?” is a very philosophical question, in that it lacks a clear and straightforward answer. When they asked it to 49 prominent colleagues, British philosophers Nigel Warburton and ...