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

“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, ...

Yesterday, the philosopher Richard Yetter Chappell offered a thoughtful reply (see here) to my melancholic reflections on panpsychism, materialism, and the state of philosophy. Unlike me, Dan Dennett, ...

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 ...

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Source: Image created with ChatGPT/OpenAI This post is a continuation of a previous entry on the merits of analytical philosophy (see here for context). The reason, I suspect, that naturalistic ...

1:00 Lunch (Participants are on their own for this. There are many good restaurants to choose from on the Hill nearby.) 2:30 Saakshi Dulani (Johns Hopkins) "Revitalizing Non-Reductive Phyiscalism in ...

Many of us accept science is a reliable guide to what we ought to believe – but not all of us do. Mistrust of science has led to scepticism around several important issues, from climate change denial ...

WE must go back to the time when a certain father and son of Crete stretched their waxen wings and soared boldly into space, to discover any “external representation ” of the sublime attempt of the ...

The Dutch astrochemist visited Barcelona to take part in Cosmocaixa’s ‘Greats of Science’ series ...

The standard philosophy major is the most flexible version of the major, allowing you the most freedom to follow your interests. If you don’t know which, if any, concentration is best for you, then ...