The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at LSE was founded by Professor Sir Karl Popper in 1946, and remains internationally renowned for a type of philosophy that is both continuous ...

Using quantitative methods, we investigate the role of logic in analytic philosophy from 1941 to 2010. In particular, a corpus of five journals publishing analytic philosophy is assessed and evaluated ...

The history of modern logic is usually written as the history of mathematical or, more general, symbolic logic. As such it was created by mathematicians. Not regarding its anticipations in Scholastic ...

The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method was founded by Karl Popper in 1946 and is renowned for a type of philosophy that is both continuous with the sciences and socially relevant.

MUCH in current discussion of scientific method turns on the ancient problem of idealism versus realism. As I understand it, an idealist holds that he is inventing a universe for himself as he goes ...

Imagine that you are Plato, coming to the end of your years, presiding over the now-famous Academy, enjoying a reputation among both your students in particular and Athenians in general. You hear, ...

MY attention has been directed by Mr. John Bradley of Christ's Hospital, Horsham, to a passage by Prof. J. H. Muirhead 1, containing the words: “The truth is that what is called a natural law is ...

No spoilers ahead, I promise. Logic, metaphysics, epistemology, morality and existentialism. This carefully selected list of subjects makeup the requirements of what the University of Connecticut ...

Generally recognised as one of the founders of analytical philosophy, Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) is perhaps Britain’s best-known, and most controversial, philosophical commentator of modern times.

The month is May 1916. In southern Galicia, now Ukraine, on the Eastern Front of World War I, a twenty-seven-year-old Austrian volunteers for duty in an observation post exposed to enemy gunfire. He ...