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...
Category: Philosophy
Reductionism in physics and chemistry
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...
What is “science” communication?
According to Thompson-Reuters, eight-thousand and seventy-three science and engineering journals published just over one million peer-reviewed articles in 2010....
Another call for disunity and heterogeneity
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...
Science as knowledge vs. science as naturalism
On The Stone, Timothy Williamson continues to explore naturalism, most recently to counter Alex Rosenberg’s suggestion that only science produces worthwhi...
On naturalism
Writing in the Times, Timothy Williamson criticizes the dogma of naturalism: Which other disciplines count as science? Logic? Linguistics? History? Literary the...
Philosophy of science nerd-fest
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...
Does philosophy matter?
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...
The Scientific Sensibility
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...
Belated response to the politics of demarcation
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...