Scientific policy advice has become a key input for rational decision-making. In this article, we address three fundamental challenges predictive policy advice is faced with and that are inextricably ...

Wie vereinbar ist das Demokratieverständnis der AfD mit den Prinzipien des Grundgesetzes? Eine Studie kommt zu einem eindeutigen Ergebnis.

A guidebook to methods and methodology, encouraging deeper engagement across the philosophy of science and beyond.The last twenty years have seen multiple

Scientists at Radboud University received the John Templeton Foundation to investigate one of the fundamental puzzles of physics: why do so many processes in nature run in only one direction?

The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.

This paper presents a three-year longitudinal autoethnographic study of the TIER2 project, an international, interdisciplinary consortium committed to “radical reproducibility” through open researc...

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This paper analyzes how scientific method, theory, and hypothesis are portrayed in introductory, college science textbooks across the natural and social sciences. While philosophers of science have lo...

Die Debatte um die Verfassungsfeindlichkeit der AfD steht still. Das ändern wir jetzt. Wenn Bundestagsabgeordnete E-Mails von echten Menschen aus ihrem Wahlkreis bekommen, hören sie hin. Sie können da...

This paper offers an abstract characterization of the scientific realism debate (SRD) as a dialectical process of formulating, testing, and refining epistemic principles, and argues that it inherently...

This paper argues that realism is best defended across the sciences by appealing to the notion of detection properties. While much of the realism debate has focused on physics, where object-oriented a...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science (Special Issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science) Guest editors: Simon Lohse (Nijmegen) & Karim Bschir (St....

The planet is changing. Climate change, artificial intelligence, urbanization. Human presence is everywhere. Next Nature tells the story of humans changing their world with the fruits of knowledge, de...

The Netherlands has spent decades building a sophisticated water-defense system. But as sea levels rise, experts say it could struggle to keep pace.

This Open Letter, endorsed by 125 scientists, researchers and innovators across Europe, calls on the European Union to establish a dedicated €1 billio…

Project Description:Over the last few years science has seen a rapid increase in talk about – and implementation of – automated workflows.

The Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice 2026 Conference at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge