You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa, wherea…

- Catherine Wilson

Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century 'mechanical' philosophers, there is no intentiona…

- Catherine Wilson

I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.

- Catherine Wilson

We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discuss…

- Catherine Wilson

About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and older metaphysic…

- Catherine Wilson

For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there was no met…

- Catherine Wilson

For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system…

- Catherine Wilson

Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists are at…

- Catherine Wilson

The Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it.

- Catherine Wilson