Avid readers of Physics World will know that we have for many years published a monthly column called “Critical Point” written by Robert P Crease, a historian and philosopher of science from Stony ...

Like most high schoolers in an intro to physics class, Dan Hoek heard the legendary tale of Isaac Newton and the apple. Here's how the story goes. While resting beneath a tree, Newton watched an apple ...

One of the evergreen topics in online discussions of physics is what role, if any, philosophy plays in the discipline. I've been blogging since 2002 (which is after the dinosaurs, but before the giant ...

Prof. Emeritus Howard Stein, a renowned philosopher and historian of physics at the University of Chicago, died March 8 at his home in Hyde Park. He was 95. A trained philosopher and mathematician, ...

What existed before the big bang? What is the nature of time? Is our universe one of many? On the big questions science cannot (yet?) answer, a new crop of philosophers are trying to provide answers.

In the research field of the history and philosophy of physics, Professor Emeritus Allan Franklin studies the long-term impacts of physics discoveries on the scientific community and the greater ...

One of the evergreen topics in my social-media circles has to do with the relationship between physics and philosophy, which generally comes up in the form of accusations that physicists are too ...

Deep thinkers: Philosophers of physics can shed light on the precise scientific nature of string theory. (Courtesy: Alfred Pasieka/Science Photo Library) There are some questions in physics that no ...

In his final essay the late physicist Victor Stenger argues for the validity of philosophy in the context of modern theoretical physics Editor’s Note: Shortly before his death last August at the age ...