Abstract Behavioural biology often focuses on identifying general patterns, yet unusual or rare behaviours at both the population and individual level can provide insight into animal behaviour. Here, ...

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Evidential discordance, or the situation where scientific evidence supports contrary hypotheses, claims or theories about a given phenomenon, is common in scientific inquiry (Franklin, 2002; Boyd, 201...

Understanding to Some Purpose

As data-driven research reshapes global science, industry, and governance, a critical question remains: how do we ensure that the infrastructures we build are both technologically robust and socially ...

The Special Issue on Legacies of Asilomar features invited essays that reflect on and reinterpret the 1975 International Conference on Recombinant DNA ...

How the inventor of "biology" located life's beginnings in the sea.

A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.

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TeachPhilosophy101, a free and helpful collection of resources and ideas for teaching philosophy, has recently been updated. Its materials cover course planning, how to use […]

The amoeba Incendiamoeba cascadensis demonstrates that eukaryotic life can withstand temperatures beyond what was thought possible and sheds light on molecular strategies for survival in extreme heat.

The Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University is the largest in Sweden, with vibrant research groups in a wide range of philosophical disciplines. The department has significant strengths in ph

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We explore the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by comparing the way they gather data with the way humans build knowledge. Here we examine how scientific knowledge is made and compare it w...

Oreskes and Conway’s (2010) paradigmatic cases for agnotology show how misplaced doubt can be deliberately produced in the minds of one’s audience, even when everything one asserts is strictly true. T...

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Papers on the scope of Evidential Pluralism in science and practice. Across disciplines—from the biomedical and social sciences to economics and ...

Commentary on Seth (2025): Unity is intrinsic to being both an experiencing and an embodied subject. Computational accounts of consciousness, being observer-relative, cannot account for this unity. The thermodynamics of life can but, contra Seth’s suggestion, the free energy principle fails to capture the distinctive metabolic interdependencies by virtue of which a living system constitutes itself as a unified perspective on the world.

Why are some people more successful at forming true beliefs than others? This book challenges explanations that appeal exclusively to either intellectual virtues or to features of epistemic environmen...