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 ...

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, ...

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 book well represents the remarkable change which has come over the study of philosophy within living memory. People who studied philosophy at one of our universities thirty or forty years ago ...

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 ...

This was a heated debate in early Islam, and continues to have a significant impact on jurisprudence, the philosophy of law, ...