Science exists within philosophy
Freddie rejects the notion that data exists in a vacuum: Empiricism exists within a framework of theory, and theory cannot be derived empirically. The fact-valu...
Freddie rejects the notion that data exists in a vacuum: Empiricism exists within a framework of theory, and theory cannot be derived empirically. The fact-valu...
Ashutosh Jogalekar explains why chemistry can never be reduced to physics: To me the real problem with reductionism has not really been philosophical as much as...
According to Thompson-Reuters, eight-thousand and seventy-three science and engineering journals published just over one million peer-reviewed articles in 2010....
To clarify why I found Williamson’s and Rosenberg’s definition of naturalism so unsatisfying, let’s look at the former’s definition of t...
On The Stone, Timothy Williamson continues to explore naturalism, most recently to counter Alex Rosenberg’s suggestion that only science produces worthwhi...
Writing in the Times, Timothy Williamson criticizes the dogma of naturalism: Which other disciplines count as science? Logic? Linguistics? History? Literary the...
UPDATE: In the comments, Paul notes that my truncated quote somewhat misstates both him and Feyerabend. I should have been more careful as I know Feyerabend pro...
Stanley Fish questions the usefulness of philosophy outside the academy: Now it could be said (and some philosophers will say it) that the person who deliberate...
On a blog I’ve just started reading ardently, Venkat Rao explains why he doesn’t like the scientific method: I don’t like or use the term scientific...
It has been two months (an eternity in blogging years) since Paul Newall and Michael Pearl insisted that the issue of teaching intelligent design in schools sho...