This is the first in a new series of articles on “Science and Philosophy”. The School of Athens Source: Raphael (1483–1520) Public Domain “A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background ...

Attentive readers of this blog may have noticed that those who post comments to my entries often show two interesting and complementary attitudes: a fundamental distrust of (if not downright contempt ...

In his final essay the late physicist Victor Stenger argues for the validity of philosophy in the context of modern theoretical physics Editor’s Note: Shortly before his death last August at the age ...

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“Evacuate the city. The latest numbers from the predictive model show that the hurricane might hit in two days and cause major devastation.” This was not the balanced approach of an emergency manager, ...

In a field such as philosophy, the reverse Gresham’s Law analogue may be too optimistic, as Williamson suggests. Williamson points out that very often a philosopher profoundly wants one answer rather ...

Philosophy of science examines how scientific knowledge is created, tested and applied. It asks foundational questions about evidence, explanation, models and scientific reasoning across disciplines ...

SINCE 1945 one of the features of the scientific life of Great "Britain has been a growing interest in the 'philosophy of science'. The Philosophy of Science Group of the British Society for the ...

SUMMARY: At the beginning of the 20th century, philosophical thought was transformed by the discovery of the "new logic", i.e. mathematical or symbolic logic. With this novum organum, philosophers ...