Quantum theory is often sold as a story about tiny particles, but its real disruption lands squarely on our everyday sense of ...

The philosophical area of metaphysics asks the question: What is the nature of reality? Is there an objective world out there, and can the mind grasp that? To assist you, the reader, in determining ...

The nature of reality challenges the fundamental elements of existence and essence. Whether we discern it or not, reality is said to always exist. It can be both objective (independent of perception) ...

Picture an apple, any apple. As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain activity that’s surprisingly similar to what ...

Alyssa Ney is professor and chair of metaphysics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and Religious Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany. This week, physicists are ...