While testing the "infinite monkey theorem," mathematicians found that the odds of a chimpanzee typing even a short phrase ...

Metaphysics, despite what booksellers may offer in the way of do-it-yourself witchcraft manuals and stories of UFOs, is much different than any popular misconception of its meaning. For Aristotle, the ...

Here is the problem: Aristotle seems clearly to reject the traditional Olympian gods. His own conception of god (see especially Metaphysics) seems to have no religious significance; for whatever else ...

Heidegger's engagement with Aristotelian Metaphysics and the development of his phenomenology; currently teaching classes on Being and Time and on the early lectures from which this text originated.

Philosophy of Mind: Neo-Aristotelian metaphysics has come to increased prominence in a number of contemporary debates such as in the philosophy of mind, and so it will be helpful to begin with ...

“It’s a very romantic approach to envision Aristotle and his student sitting and discussing metaphysics,” she says. “It wasn’t so. It was a very harsh education intended to produce ...

The great Greek philosopher, Aristotle, was one of the first. He thought that slavery was a natural thing and that human beings came in two types - slaves and non-slaves. For that some should rule ...

"On one hand, we have Aristotle's theory of Form and Matter, which proposed that everything in the natural world is made up ...

From James Joyce to Albert Camus, Marilyn Monroe's extensive personal library contained over 400 books from all genres and eras.

A clever, genre-blending book by Eden Robins, “Remember You Will Die” illustrates the paradox. The novel is written as a ...

Past focus areas include Descartes’ philosophy, experimental knowledge, philosophy of perception, medieval metaphysics, and the philosophy of Aristotle and Plato. SLU hosted the last Henle Conference ...