Synthese spans the topics of Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Coverage includes the theory of knowledge; general methodological problems of science, of induction and probability, ...

The Journal of Philosophy was founded in 1904 as The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge and J. McKeen Cattell. In 1906, Wendell T. Bush became ...

At a time when advances in science and technology have changed our understanding of our mental and physical selves, it is easy for some to dismiss the discipline of philosophy as obsolete. Stephen ...

Editor’s Note: Professor WERNER HEISENBERG, who was born in Duisburg in 1901, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his work on the quantum theory. A member of the faculty of the ...

Philosophy fads are not considered fads by philosophers. “ Finally a path to the truth!"—that’s how philosophers consider philosophy fads. Logical empiricism (early 20th century) is the Platonic ideal ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. In 1917 John Dewey published “The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy.” The essay consists of a ...

Philosophy fads are not considered fads by philosophers. “Finally a path to the truth!"—that’s how philosophers consider philosophy fads. Logical empiricism (early 20th century) is the Platonic ideal ...

The month is May 1916. In southern Galicia, now Ukraine, on the Eastern Front of World War I, a twenty-seven-year-old Austrian volunteers for duty in an observation post exposed to enemy gunfire. He ...