To understand the ultimate nature of reality, philosophers could learn more from elephants than traditional armchair ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Much seems to be at stake in metaphysical questions about, for example, God, free will or morality. One thing that could be at stake is the ...

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research was founded in 1940 by Marvin Farber, who edited it for forty years. Since 1980 it has been at Brown, where it has been edited by Roderick Chisholm and then, ...

What is language? What is beauty? Who gets to decide? Philosophers have grappled with these questions for centuries, and they've generated a pile of long (and often tortured) books in their efforts to ...

CRITICAL philosophy or metaphysics Mr. Read divides into two branches, the metaphysics of nature and science and the metaphysics of ideals. In this work he deals only with the former branch, and only ...

Bing Shuo graduated from Wuhan University with a BA in Philosophy. He is primarily interested in some topics in philosophy of language, metaphysics and philosophy of science. Outside of philosophy, he ...