Mention teleology in scientific circles and you’ll usually get a skeptical response. Purpose in the way the world is evolving? Patterns certainly—but purpose? No. Science has gotten along famously ...

While the book's subtitle is 'How Mind Emerged From Matter', it's a far more ambitious--and complicated--attempt to show how goal-directed processes, including the origin of life and mind, can arise ...

Coronavirus has brought about an unprecedented global shutdown. China imposed lockdowns in cities in Wuhan and other cities in the province of Hubei from late January, many of which are starting to ...

This paper considers two arguments for natural teleology, which Avicenna develops in the Physics and Metaphysics of his Kitāb al-Shifā' (Book of Healing). The first argument attempts to show that ...

Synthese spans the topics of Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Coverage includes the theory of knowledge; general methodological problems of science, of induction and probability, ...

Over the last few weeks, we concluded that based on scientific observation and evidence from the cosmos, and evidence that there was a First Cause that caused the universe to begin to exist. From ...