In his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, E.O. Wilson laid out a grand vision for how the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities might be coherently interrelated. Given how ...

In The Philosophy of Science, an eight-hour course, Dr. James Orr traces the development of science from ancient Greece through the Scientific Revolution to today. He examines how theological, ...

It is sometimes said that 90 percent of scientists who ever lived are alive today, so why is science not advancing by leaps and bounds? To call a thing ‘scientific’ or ‘scientifically proven’ is to ...

Are you an objectivist or a nihilist? A mystic or a communitarian? Or something else entirely? Here’s a fun way to find out. When people hear the word philosophy, they often imagine abstract debates, ...

Philosophy of science examines how scientific knowledge is created, tested and applied. It asks foundational questions about evidence, explanation, models and scientific reasoning across disciplines ...