Last May, Stephen Hawking gave a talk at Google's Zeitgeist Conference in which he declared philosophy to be dead. In his book The Grand Design, Hawking went even further. "How can we understand the ...

The growing number of philosophy of cosmology initiatives might be a sign that the outlook is improving, notwithstanding the haters. The example of the cosmological principle reminds us that cosmology ...

Cosmology has made huge strides as a physical science since Einstein proposed the first quantitative cosmological model in 1917 when even the nature of galaxies was unknown. On the one hand, cosmology ...

The positions in the table below reflect the Institute for Cosmology and Philosophy of Nature's position overall, domestically, within their sector, and in various subject areas based on their Share.

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Since its inception in 1934, Philosophy of Science, along with its sponsoring society, The Philosophy of Science ...

Recent developments in cosmology indicate that every history having a non-zero probability is realized in infinitely many distinct regions of spacetime. Thus, it appears that the universe contains ...

Join the debate at the Philosophy and Cosmology conference as experts discuss fine tuning, multiverses, and implications on our universe. Monday evening there was a scheduled talk by Paul Davies, with ...

Greetings from Oxford, a charming little town across the Atlantic with its very own university. It's in the United Kingdom, a small island nation recognized for its steak and kidney pie and other ...

Cosmologists face a dilemma. The rise of quantitative cosmology, exemplified by the release of new data in March on the cosmic microwave background from the WMAP satellite (see pp16-19; print version ...