Last May, Stephen Hawking gave a talk at Google's Zeitgeist Conference in which he declared philosophy to be dead. In his book The Grand Design, Hawking went even further. "How can we understand the ...

One of the evergreen topics in online discussions of physics is what role, if any, philosophy plays in the discipline. I've been blogging since 2002 (which is after the dinosaurs, but before the giant ...

Philosophical questions tend to be conceptual in nature. This means that they cannot be answered simply by giving facts or information. A concept is the object of a thought, not something that is ...

This is a guest column by James S. Spiegel, professor of philosophy and religion at Taylor University. With Steven B. Cowan, he is the author of The Love of Wisdom: A Christian Introduction to ...

Duncan Ivison receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of The Conversation. Matthew Sharpe has taught and written on political philosophy at ...

ONE of the most oddly significant commentaries upon the Anglo-Saxon indifference to the great ideas of the century whenever they are concretized into the form of actable drama, is furnished by the ...

Despite his significant impact on architecture through both built and theoretical works, most studies of Peter Eisenman's career focus on either one aspect or the other. In “From Formalism to Weak ...

What existed before the big bang? What is the nature of time? Is our universe one of many? On the big questions science cannot (yet?) answer, a new crop of philosophers are trying to provide answers.