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: ...

“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 ...

WEEKEND EDITION essayist Tim Brookes recently tackled a whole remodeling project. There were problems, of course, but Tim found a solution. TIM BROOKES: My wife, Barbara, decided to move her therapy ...

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 ...

THE impossibility of eliminating the relations of complementarity from atomic physics is not a question of opinion but a simple logical point, as devoid of obscurity, as, for example, the ...

IT is no doubt a splendid simplification to express the ninety or more chemical elements in terms of two entities, and of only two, namely, electrons and protons, but those who face squarely the ...