Marshall Abrams, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Philosophy, teaches about and conducts research on philosophy of science. The College of Arts and ...

Philosophy of science at its best seems to me a pleasing gloss on the history and discoveries of science.” Here Weinberg makes the all-too common mistake of thinking of philosophy as of an activity ...

Nature Research Intelligence Topics Topic summaries Philosophy and Religious Studies Philosophy Philosophy of Science Philosophy of science critically examines the fundamental nature, methods, and ...

“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, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper argues that we philosophers of science have before us an important new task that we urgently need to take up. It is to convince the ...

Dr. Shech is a professor of philosophy who specializes in the philosophy of science. As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about ...

A few years ago, while I was pursuing my Ph.D. at the University of Sydney, the philosopher Liam Kofi Bright wrote a ...

Philosophy of science interrogates the nature, boundaries and assumptions of scientific inquiry. It examines how theories are formulated, tested and ultimately accepted or revised, and explores the ...