Scientific realists endeavor to secure inferences from empirical success to approximate truth by arguing that, despite the demise of empirically successful theories, the parts of those theories ...

Frankly, while there have obviously been many intelligent men through time, spouting their ideas about life in general, most human philosophy is just garbage. Interesting garbage, maybe, but still ...

An explicit philosophy and meta-philosophy of positivism, empiricism and popperianism is provided. Early popperianism is argued to be essentially a form of empiricism, the deviations from empiricism ...

Buddhism is less a religion and more of a philosophy and a system of thought whose objective is to see reality as clearly as possible. The man who would become the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, was born ...

What’s your favorite ism? There are so many to choose from. Many of us today are rejecting isms in general as hazardous to our health. But the sad fact is that even if we don’t acknowledge or actively ...

The philosopher Markus Gabriel is something of a wunderkind. Six years ago, at the tender age of 29, he was appointed to his current position as a professor of philosophy and chair of epistemology at ...

That value is asserted with gentle but firm assurance by Michela Massimi, the recent recipient of the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal, an award given annually by the UK’s Royal Society. Massimi’s prize ...