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 ...

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 ...

The basic task of the essay is to exhibit science as a rational enterprise. I argue that in order to do this we need to change quite fundamentally our whole conception of science. Today it is rather ...

Influences governing religious thought in the mid-twentieth century have dealt rather scurrilously with theological metaphysics. For quite different reasons, both recent Continental theology and ...

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 ...

Quantum mechanics, and classical mechanics, are framework theories that incorporate many different concrete theories which in general cannot be arranged in a neat hierarchy, but discussion of 'the ...

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), ...