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 ...

Not that long ago, most serious scientists considered cosmology a branch of philosophy. But in recent decades, observations by the Hubble Space Telescope and probes of the microwave radiation left ...

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 Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides absolute Count of ...

Philosophy of science has built an industry around confirmation theory. But unprecedented methodological challenges are forcing philosophers to go back to the drawing-board The Dark Energy Survey (DES ...

The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences (CPNSS) is searching for a CPNSS Research Officer in Cosmology and the Edge of the Universe (Philosophy of Physics 2). Application deadline: 15 ...

What existed before the big bang? What is the nature of time? Is our universe one of many? On the big questions science cannot (yet?) answer, a new crop of philosophers are trying to provide answers.