The question of what comes first in the system of sciences has led to an exploration and justification of the criteria behind this priority. According to Thomas Aquinas, metaphysics is justly considered to be the first philosophy: on the one hand it is occupied with what comes first in the ...
The notion of subjective feelings springing from physical stuff is at odds with a commonly applied axiom in philosophy and modern science: the “ex nihilo nihil fit,” or that “out of nothing, nothing comes,” Koch wrote. He argued that elementary particles either have some charge, or they...
According to panpsychism, everything in the world has an internal mind. But some scientists think nothing is conscious—not even you.