The work challenges the assumption that all life descended from one free-living cell. Instead, it suggests that two microbial lineages, the bacteria and archaea, evolved independently from a primordia...

Physicists have succeeded for the first time in transporting the most expensive and most volatile substance on Earth — antimatter.

About This conference aims to extend the scientific pluralist stance into the domain of scientific metaphysics. Although the metaphysics of science is a vast field, pluralism offers both a way to pos...

This essay investigates Newton's thoughts on laws of nature. First, we argue that Newton’s experimental-philosophical methodology of hypotheses and queries exhibits a modal-exploratory nature. Second,...

Philosophy has most to contribute to the pursuit of truth by refining its own distinctive methods, not by imitating other disciplines.

Summerschool exploring three recent approaches for engaging with the post-positivist legacy in philosophy of science. 15th -- 19th September 2025, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.