*As readers have likely gathered, here at the blog we're mighty keen on "design fiction" and "architecture fiction," while science fiction is, of course, pretty much an existential given. *But what ...

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 ...

But people still believe it and probably will continue to because everybody wants to go to heaven. Socialists promise heaven on earth. It never happens. It never will happen. It is an entirely ...

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 32, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE WITH THE SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY (2018), pp. 450-461 (12 pages ...

The Big Ideas: What Is Reality? With doubt and melancholy, Hamlet and Ophelia faced a reality as wrenching as our own. By Simon Critchley Mr. Critchley is a professor of philosophy. This essay is part ...

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Peter Evans receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Foundational Questions Institute. The Nobel Prize in physics this year has been awarded “for experiments with entangled ...