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.

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 ...

The 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 l ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

CLEMSON, S.C. -- Tom Oberdan, associate professor of science and technology in society, has received a Scholars Award of $128,000 from the National Science Foundation to explore the 20th-century ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method was founded in 1946 by Sir Karl Popper and is renowned for applying philosophy in a manner that is both continuous with the sciences and ...