Reflections on fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, and ethics. With rigorous reasoning and open-ended inquiry, our philosophy area seeks to deepen our understanding of the human experience, the structure of reality itself, the nature of space, time, and matter—and what it all means for our place in the universe.
Philosophy
While metaphors love to roam free, some things are best kept in their box, or their context, it is especially relevant when we talk about presuppositions and referential systems in science. Metaphysical presuppositions are like power outlets—you can plug all kinds of tools into them, but only if you
Cosmology
Warm wind, Floridian streets, evening light, we are listening to a song on the radio. Note by note, each word following another, initially our attention is focused sequentially on the music. What would it look like if suddenly our attention could become larger, taking a step back from the unfolding
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I’ve been pondering a slippery question for some time now: What exists before a thing becomes a thing? It arose one quiet afternoon as I reflected on *information structures*. In physics we can sometimes hear that information precedes matter and form, or in the language of the dauntless physicist
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There are so many landscapes out there - political landscapes, economic landscapes, even moral landscapes! But have you ever heard of the “string theory landscape”? I first heard about this when I was a physics undergraduate and it sent me into a little bit of an existential tailspin. In string
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Throughout the history of philosophy, few debates have been as fundamental as the contrast between the Eleatic philosopher Parmenides and the Ionian thinker Heraclitus.
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In the quest to understand the universe across all scales, certain concepts have sparked particular fascination during my early studies for their radical potential in foundational physics—among them, the idea of causation, holographic principles, relationalism, and nonlocality. What makes these ideas so compelling is that they speak directly to
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For millennia, humanity has projected its perception of reality onto nature and woven it into stories—the mountain reaching toward the heavens, the sun as a life-giving force, and the forest whispering ancient wisdom. These interpretations are not mere myths but expressions of an intuitive grasp of wholeness—the idea