In his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, E.O. Wilson laid out a grand vision for how the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities might be coherently interrelated. Given how ...

THIS book well represents the remarkable change which has come over the study of philosophy within living memory. People who studied philosophy at one of our universities thirty or forty years ago ...

THE old idea of metaphysics, that it marks a stage of human intellectual activity when, dissatisfied with a primitive anthropomorphic pro jection of images which peopled the unseen world with gods and ...

With an folksy style and overly reductive economics, Landsburg (The Armchair Economist) solves, to his own satisfaction, a host of such philosophical problems as the limits of knowledge, what reality ...

One important aspect of twentieth-century philosophy is the rise of what has been variously called “analytic,” “critical,” or “linguistic” philosophy. As in most such cases, no exact date can be ...