Modern physicists have spent decades struggling to explain the universe with more and more baroque theories. They’re creative and complex—and as Jim Baggott points out in review - Farewell to Reality: ...

In the first half of the semester, we will discuss philosophical problems of classical mechanics and classical field theories: the persistence of matter, modality, the representation of mechanical ...

“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 ...

THE writer of the review of “A Short History of Physics” (NATURE, May 26) suggests an interesting speculation (p. 824) as to whether the great physical scientists “have not usurped the place of the ...

The notion that physics might have metaphysical meaning for human beings is as old as physics itself. The ancient Greeks did natural philosophy not only to learn about the cosmos but also to learn ...

Nature of March 8 contained, over the signature of Prof. L. Rosenfeld, a very lively criticism of the book “Causality and Chance in Modern Physics”, published last year by Prof. David Bohm, a book for ...