Alasdair MacIntyre, from a 1993 review of Iris Murdoch’s philosophical study Metaphysics As A Guide To Morals: This book is a salutary and needed reminder of the intellectual and moral power of the ...
“ALL men by nature desire to know.” So begins the first book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, written about two and a half thousand years ago and still one of the most influential works of Western ...
Philosophy of science is often dismissed as useless by practicing scientists. From young researchers scrambling to get tenure or finish a dissertation, to industry scientists buried under a mountain ...
The idea that an a priori metaphysics must first provide a conceptual framework for science to work at all, to be able to reveal truths about reality, is, as the philosopher Don Ross has aptly put it, ...
A revision of the author's thesis, Harvard University, 1948. siris_sil_70567 ...
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. The Knowledge Encyclopedia reads: ...
Stephen Hawking was perfectly in line with the ancient philosophers when he acknowledged that physics points to the deeper questions of metaphysics. Indeed, when questions stop becoming scientific, ...
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Sydney). https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...
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