The second, more fundamental, reason for keeping philosophy at arm’s length is due to the attacks on science made by adherents of social constructivism. The Sokal–Bricmont affair of the mid-1990s, in ...

Strong influence on the development of modern science. Through their work the Jena group would like to draw attention to how Ernst Haeckel has strongly influenced the development of modern science.

In “The Knowledge Machine,” the philosopher Michael Strevens says that there is something fundamentally irrational and even “inhuman” about the scientific method.

The Birth of Modern Science. ... The 19th century saw some of the great names of science: ... It shows something of the parallel development of human communication and of science and its ...

The Forgotten Revolution is a work of passionate advocacy, defending the excellence of science in Greece in the 200 years after the beginning of the Hellenistic period in 320 BC.The author, Lucio ...

A large part of modern science and social science already is tainted by the irreproducibility crisis of modern science —the combination of politicized groupthink, academic publish-or-perish culture, ...

Their work, outlook, and means of analysis – if not their conclusions - were critical to the development of modern science. A word in defense of my profession: Bacon (the originator of the scientific ...