I’m an ontologist — one who is interested in the metaphysics of being. I probe the peripheral, the cosmic questions of life and being, and the result is always that I see a cast of these characters ...

Stephen Hawking was perfectly in line with the ancient philosophers when he acknowledged that physics points to the deeper questions of metaphysics. Indeed, when questions stop becoming scientific, ...

Galileo is generally credited with being the father of modern science. As this lecture aptly describes, he completely eschewed metaphysics and got along with the business of empirically and ...