Prof. Emeritus Howard Stein, a renowned philosopher and historian of physics at the University of Chicago, died March 8 at his home in Hyde Park. He was 95. A trained philosopher and mathematician, ...

The text is now best known for introducing “Pascal’s Law” or “Principle,” that any change of pressure in an enclosed incompressible fluid (like water) is transmitted equally to all points within the ...

Noel Swanson, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. His research areas include philosophy of physics philosophy of science, and logic. “On the ...

Emily Aldam is an assistant professor of the philosophy of quantum mechanics at Chapman University. She works on the foundations of quantum mechanics and related issues in the philosophy of physics, ...

A recent interview with the well-known physicist Sean Carroll on “the physics of consciousness” gives us a great example of a reductive physicalist view of consciousness and the world around us. In it ...