Central to the claim that science was born of Christianity is the flip side of the coin that modern science did not emerge in any other culture. Why? The short answer is that all the other cultures ...

In the Nota Bene section of the December 12 issue (“Science and Spirituality,” The Chronicle Review), Evan R. Goldstein refers to intelligent design as “anti-rational and anti-intellectual” and lumps ...

Philosophy, the journal of The Royal Institute of Philosophy is published by Cambridge University Press quarterly in January, April, July and October. The editorial policy of the journal pursues the ...

The Review of Metaphysics is devoted to the promotion of technically competent, definitive contributions to philosophical knowledge. Not associated with any school or group, not the organ of any ...

Ross Douthat has a very insightful column in the New York Times on the appeal of pantheism in American culture. It starts out as a review of the new (and according to John Podhoretz, avatarocious) ...

It's fitting that James Cameron's Avatar arrived in theaters at Christmastime. Like the holiday season itself, the science fiction epic is a crass embodiment of capitalistic excess wrapped around a ...

Wade, Max. “Gersonides on the Heavenly Bodies’ Relation to the Agent Intellect” in Mind, Soul and the Cosmos in the High Middle Ages, eds. Jack Cunningham, Adam Foxon and Rosamund Gammie. Studies in ...