*Science fiction probably needs a better metaphysics. It would have something to do with the relationship of language to the passage of time. As for the "mythical and the mystical," I don't think ...

Some weeks ago, the students of Paramahansa Yogananda -- the teacher widely credited with bringing Yoga and Yoga Science to the West - approached me to write an article on prayer, coincident with ...

This paper makes three points: First, empiricism as a stance is problematic unless criteria for evaluating the stance are provided. Second, Van Fraassen conceives of the empiricist stance as receiving ...

Dialectica, Vol. 14, No. 1, Discussion sur I'idée d'une philosophie d'inspiraion scientifique (15. 3. 1960), pp. 53-79 (27 pages) The scientist's basic question, « What is going on ? » shows that he ...

Why the Christian worldview is the foundation of the method and spirit of science. In my university teaching experience, my Chinese students often tell me, “From the very start of our elementary ...

THE most interesting moral to be drawn from Dr. Dingle's article has nothing to do with his detailed criticisms of the theories of the “Aristotelians”; but raises the matter of the curious ...

Metaphysics explores fundamental questions about reality, existence, and being, primarily through abstract thought and reasoning. Metaphysics should be distinguished from philosophy. While metaphysics ...

PROF. MACKENZIE is to be congratulated on having produced an exceedingly useful little book of a kind which has no precise counterpart in our current philosophical literature. Within the compass of ...