If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. We like to think we live in the age of science -- that is, that science, our most rigorous attempt at thought, is ...

An explicit philosophy and meta-philosophy of positivism, empiricism and popperianism is provided. Early popperianism is argued to be essentially a form of empiricism, the deviations from empiricism ...

The jump from observed to unobserved is not empiricism but rationalism, which cannot be solved in empiricism alone in Western Philosophy Induction, as mentioned, however could be tested, which brings ...

National Review's Kevin Williamson has a post, responding to me, entitled, "What Does Jonathan Chait Know about Science?": Scientific disputes are highly specialized, and meaningful participation in ...

Some versions of empiricism have been accused of being neither empirically confirmable nor analytically true and therefore meaningless or unknowable by their own lights. Carnap, and more recently van ...

Was FDA's decision to issue a draft guidance on of-label information, amidst Congressional scrutiny, the right thing to do? Once again, off-label use of medical products has become a hot topic on the ...

THIS booklet contains a strange medley of fact and fiction, though apparently written with a good motive, for in his preface the author acknowledges the “splendid efforts of our scientists and medical ...

Many of us who are engaged in the world of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy feel like underdogs. We feel that our theories have been devalued, dismissed by managed care, American medicine, ...