If we divide our physical theories (somewhat artificially) into theories of matter and theories of spacetime, quantum field theory (QFT) is our most fundamental empirically successful theory of matter. As such, it has attracted increasing attention from philosophers over the past two decades, beginning to eclipse its predecessor theory of quantum mechanics (QM) in the philosophical literature. ...

Robert Boyle maintained that proper natural philosophical knowledge should be generated through experiment and that the foundations of such knowledge were to be constituted by experimentally produced matters of fact. Thomas Hobbes disagreed. In Hobbes's view Boyle's procedures could never yield the degree of certainty requisite in any enterprise worthy of being called philosophical. This text i...

The stream of marketing-finance interface has provided justification for marketing’s important value in the business world. However, little attention has been paid to address philosophical and methodological issues and to provide scientific rationales of marketing-finance. Therefore, the authors strive to address several philosophical and methodological issues in the marketing-finance interface...