Dr. Shech is a professor of philosophy who specializes in the philosophy of science. As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about ...

Introduction / Lloyd Evans -- Why philosophy of science? / John Passmore -- Knowledge and power in the sciences / Everett Mendelsohn -- Facts and values in science studies / Alan Musgrave -- No ...

Modern "alternative" experts undermine the Iron Rule of Science. Source: Image from Mart Productions on Pexels. People in the U.S. have much less trust in institutions than they used to, from churches ...

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 ...

Why does consciousness exist? The answer lies in the evolutionary origins of the simplest forms of subjective experience, not in studies of human consciousness alone, which represent just one special ...