This book shows that the understanding of science is somewhat biased, and error, failure and mistake play a more substantial role than usually conceived

This volume challenges oversimplified accounts of the value-free (VFI) and the value-laden ideals (VLI) in twentieth-century philosophy of science. Rather than a single, unified position, it reveals a...

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This article offers a detailed review of Philip Ball’s recent book on alchemy. It situates and interprets the work within contemporary debates regarding the science-pseudoscience distinction, the h...

In the first half of the twentieth century and with the rise of new mass media, approaches emerged to the transfer of knowledge and to popular education that were intended to promote the formation of ...

The study of logical empiricism is now having another peak after its initial phase during the 1980s and 90s, when the works of Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach, and Moritz Schlick were revisited under ...

This book provides new perspectives on the twentieth-century history of philosophy of science through the person of Ernest Nagel

This book provides new perspectives on the twentieth-century history of philosophy of science through the person of Ernest Nagel