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 ...

Two heads may be better than one, but in this case, many noggins still haven’t produced a solution. The problem of the repugnant conclusion is a pesky one that philosophers have worked on for decades.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A JOINT session of the Aristotelian Society, the British Psychological Society, and the Mind Association was held in London on July 5–8. The aim of this session, which has now been held for several ...