The content of the book “Philosophy of Science and Principles in Medicine” guides to fill in the philosophical aspects of science, which are missing from many medical schools around the world.

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

Beate Peter, a speech-language pathologist and associate professor at Arizona State University’s College of Health Solutions, practices science at the interface between genetics and speech-language ...

Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...

Andrew Pelling, a professor at the University of Ottawa with appointments in the Departments of Physics and Biology, has a fresh approach to practicing science. He uses fruits and vegetables to create ...

Abstract This essay examines logical empiricism and American pragmatism, arguing that American philosophy’s embrace of logical empiricism in the 1930s was not a turning away from Dewey’s pragmatism.

The world is ultimately intelligible: all of us, students and scientists alike, assume this, by assuming that it is possible to explain how and why things happen. But why do we assume that the ...

THE imperative need of supplementing the specialist's knowledge by a more comprehensive consideration of the problems of science, without which the former is little more than a kind of scientific ...

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, ...

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 ...

The takeaway of Robert Sapolsky’s Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is basically the same as that espoused by those Snickers commercials: You’re not you when you’re hungry. Except ...