In Friday’s Financial Times, economist and author Tim Harford offers a much-needed, unusually considered response to big data hype, using the reported failure of Google Flu Trends to predict a recent ...

I've been reading George Novack’s Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View (1968). It's a flawed book, but it does contain a lot of useful material. Starts out by noting that “empiricism” has a ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. We like to think we live in the age of science -- that is, that science, our most rigorous attempt at thought, is ...

James Ladyman has argued that constructive empiricism entails modal realism, and that this renders constructive empiricism untenable. We maintain that constructive empiricism is compatible with modal ...

A quick rebuttal (of sorts) to my post Science is rational; scientists are not: Peer review and the scientific community is not what distinguishes science from other areas of knowledge. After all ...

Every day, we are faced with countless claims and persuasive messages. Most of those messages are trying to sell us something: Our toothbrush cleans better than others do, this new app reduces stress, ...