This semester I am teaching philosophy of science to science educators. The class consists mostly of people who have studied ...

Jeff Goldsmith reviews “Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong and What It Means for Our Health” by Marty Makary, Trump’s new FDA commissioner, which explores how the politics of science can slow ...

In 1848, the world was viewed through the lens of steam engines and clockwork. When Marx and Engels formulated their critique of capital, they did so within a “Newtonian” universe ~ a world of solid, ...

How do we organize elements in a system? One way is through the lens of hierarchy, which presupposes levels, a top-down ranking of elements. Another is homoarchy, which permits one (and only one) ...

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) indicates a paradigm shift in military research and application, echoing the revolutionary scientific framework presented by Thomas Kuhn in his ...

Before the revolution triggered by Nicolaus Copernicus, a 16th-century cleric, the Earth was the unmoving centre of the cosmos. Afterwards, it was one of a family of planets swinging through space.