A lecture to honor Professor Jay Garfield on the occasion of his upcoming retirement from Smith College Challenging essentialist metaphysical perspectives East and West, Madhyamaka or the ‘Middle Way’ ...

Growing up in the US during the oil embargo of the early 1970s, I was bombarded by public service announcements encouraging people to conserve energy. But at a very young age, I also read that “energy ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...

What is the fundamental ground of reality? What will ultimately ground our "theory of everything"? Philosophers and scientists tend to give three very different answers to these questions. Three ...

OXFORD, United Kingdom, Jan. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Where does the universe come from? What is the fundamental nature of reality? What is the true essence of human consciousness? These questions will ...

The reality we understand and interact with daily might, according to some scientists, be nothing more than an elaborate simulation. This hypothesis, intriguing as it may be, is supported by various ...

I see inherent self-contradiction in Daniele Oriti’s statement that “we make reality”. This is to claim to know reality. It is akin to saying that “there is no truth in words” (12 October, p 40).