In his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, E.O. Wilson laid out a grand vision for how the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities might be coherently interrelated. Given how ...

Elias Zafiris holds an M.Sc. (Distinction) in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College, University of London, and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Imperial College. He is ...

One of the things that inspires me to do the Voices of VR podcast is being able to talk with hundreds of people listening for the underlying patterns of experiential design. VR & AR are reflections of ...

DR. LARDNER'S treatise on Natural Philosophy is quite familiar to those who studied Science ten or fifteen years ago. Before Ganot and Privat-Deschanel were translated, Lardner was the book which ...

In a controversial interview, Neil deGrasse Tyson dismissed philosophy as “distracting.” The host of the television series Cosmos even suggested that philosophy could inhibit scientific progress by ...

WE opened this new and revised edition of Mrs. Marcet's “Conversations on Natural Philosophy” with expectation and interest; we closed it with disappointment and regret. The influence Mrs. Marcet ...

Social Studies of Science, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Aug., 1986), pp. 387-420 (34 pages) Recent sociological studies of scientific discovery have challenged the assumption that such discoveries are easily ...