Have you ever thought you heard something, but there was nothing there? Have you ever thought you saw someone in the corner of your eye, and when you looked there was no person there? There are thousands of occasions when we think something is really there, but when we go to investigate, we find no...

Evolution. Is it just a scientific theory or fact, or perhaps a source of philosophical thought which one adopts as an evolutionist or chooses when one has a particular worldview? Evolution actually has philosophical ramifications, ones I want to examine in this essay. Evolution means several things...

The central part of Berkeley's metaphysics seems paradoxical or even absurd. Its claim is that what we call solid, and indeed everything else that we find laid out in the three-dimensional physical word that is apparently around us, is only fictional. It appears to be there, but it does not re...

Your mind (Greek, nous; German, Geist [often translated 'spirit', but always meaning mind]) is absolute because you are able to think about yourself and know that you exist: you don't need anything other than thinking to prove that you exist. When you think about the world, however, ...

Humans existing in the world affects the world in some way and creates a certain reality or truth. Therefore, nothing is built into being. Nothing is a byproduct of negation. Negation is a product of our minds and can't be the subject of scientific reasoning. Totality is anything that is ...