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 ...

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 ...

(Click on name above for office hours and contact information.) Meeting time: Thursdays 2:30-5:20. Topics and questions will include: Humeanism versus primitivism about laws of nature, determinism, ...

THIS is a useful book, with a modestly misleading title. When a writer introduces ‘problems of’ or ‘studies in’ this or that subject, he is commonly taken to offer his own particular theories on a ...

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 ...

Reading about the closures of several philosophy departments has me worried that our centuries-old experiment of liberal arts education is ending. The United States has been trying to transform ...