"Scientists and others sometimes deride philosophy on the basis of very little, if any, evidence of what it is like."
James Ladyman is a pioneering philosopher renowned for combining rigorous natural science with deep metaphysical inquiry. A leader in philosophy of science and physics, he champions ontic structural realism, the view that reality is fundamentally relational, and defends a naturalised metaphysics that aligns with our best scientific understanding, challenging inherited intuitions that mislead us about the nature of the universe.
In Everything Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized, Ladyman argues that many common metaphysical assumptions—about objects, causation, or essence—are relics incompatible with modern science. Ladyman’s fusion of analytic clarity with scientific insight reshapes how we think about reality—revealing a cosmos that is stranger and more beautiful than our unexamined instincts suggest.
"Pseudoscience is similarly different from science fraud ... Pseudoscientists exhibit a lesser concern for truth than liars or fraudsters."
