What if our biggest idea about reality is built on a hidden misunderstanding? A new philosophical look at space-time ...

In his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, E.O. Wilson laid out a grand vision for how the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities might be coherently interrelated. Given how ...

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 ...

Popper influenced modern science. But are there limits to his ideas? Physicist Junichi Akiyama Graduate of Tohoku University ...

Early modern science emerged from a complex confluence of philosophical, religious and cultural transformations in Europe between the mid sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Its foundational debates ...

It is sometimes said that 90 percent of scientists who ever lived are alive today, so why is science not advancing by leaps and bounds? To call a thing ‘scientific’ or ‘scientifically proven’ is to ...

Are you an objectivist or a nihilist? A mystic or a communitarian? Or something else entirely? Here’s a fun way to find out. When people hear the word philosophy, they often imagine abstract debates, ...

In The Philosophy of Science, an eight-hour course, Dr. James Orr traces the development of science from ancient Greece through the Scientific Revolution to today. He examines how theological, ...