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 ...

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 ...

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.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This is the third in a series of posts on ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

Examine complex problems, challenge ideas, and communicate clearly in RIT’s versatile philosophy degree. Dynamic Curriculum: Provides a thorough grounding in core areas of philosophy (history of ...