The free will debate is caricatured as atheist science versus religious tradition, but it's more complicated than that, writes Professor Peter Clarke. Rene Descartes, the 17th-century French ...

We have lived with scientific “monism” since Newton. Monism is the view, shared by virtually all scientists, that the world is made of one kind of “stuff,” the Actual world of matter and energy and ...

This collection brings together cutting-edge research on the metaphysics of human nature and the possibility of post-mortem survival.Kevin Corcoran's collection, Soul, Body, and Survival, includes ...

The Centre for European and International Legal Affairs (CEILA) hosts the Book Launch of Paul Gragl's book, "Legal Monism: Law, Philosophy, and Politics." In response to a climate in which respect for ...

Professor Rudolph Eucken, Exchange Professor from the University of Jens, will deliver the ninth lecture of his course on "Leading Ideas of the Present Time" on "The Problem of Monism and Dualism" in ...

In a chapter in The Descent of Man (1871-77) on the question of how “mental powers” evolved from the simplest animals to humans, Charles Darwin was worried that it was so complex it might never be ...

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Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 169, No. 2 (June 2014), pp. 227-255 (29 pages) Several philosophers have recently defended Causal ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 176, No. 1 (January 2019), pp. 65-92 (28 pages) This paper has two main aims. The first is to present a ...

Seeking the ultimate reality of Nature, physics today has entered the domain of metaphysics and beyond. The hard materialism of the classical physics of Descartes, Laplace and Newton started softening ...