Language, Life and Logic

Einstein's rejection of the notion of time as we know and experience it was squarely based in classical physics and classical mathemat...

Daniel Kaufman recently talked about art and art criticism. His concerns were basically with what certain philosophers have said about th...

A confusing and (arguably) confused article about time which appeared late last year at The Electric Agora prompted me to set out a few...

Conceptual frameworks are always provisional The logical positivists took a very hard anti-metaphysical line. They were right, in my vi...

Terms like “pragmatism” as it applies to philosophy and the history of ideas – most isms really – are intrinsically vague and useful only ...

David Ottlinger has (as I see it) sound intuitions about the nature of postmodernism and other unfortunate intellectual fads and fashions ...

Lee Smolin is a respected physicist who has always had strong philosophical interests and convictions. He recently articulated his realist...