WE must go back to the time when a certain father and son of Crete stretched their waxen wings and soared boldly into space, to discover any “external representation ” of the sublime attempt of the ...

Philosophy of science at its best seems to me a pleasing gloss on the history and discoveries of science.” Here Weinberg makes the all-too common mistake of thinking of philosophy as of an activity ...

Attentive readers of this blog may have noticed that those who post comments to my entries often show two interesting and complementary attitudes: a fundamental distrust of (if not downright contempt ...