Tag: "philosophy of science"

The Universal History of Us by Tim Coulson

Grant Bartley replies philosophically to a scientific history of everything.
[Issue 166: February/March 2025: Books]

Cave Girl Principles

Larry Chan takes us back to the dawn of thought.
[Issue 165: December 2024 / January 2025: Fiction]

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

by Terence Green
[Issue 164: October/November 2024: Philosophical Haiku]

How Descartes Inspired Science

Kanan Purkayastha has both general and special theories about how the master rationalist inspired modern empirical science.
[Issue 155: April/May 2023: Descartes]

Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)

Andrea Reichenberger presents a fulcrum of the European Enlightenment.
[Issue 154: February/March 2023: Brief Lives]

Karl Popper (1902-1994)

by Terence Green
[Issue 149: April/May 2022: Philosophical Haiku]

Huygens: A Scientist Among the Philosophers

Hugh Aldersey-Williams traces the philosophical connections of a polymath.
[Issue 147: December 2021 / January 2022: Articles]

‘The Laws of Nature’

Raymond Tallis gazes into the gap between nature’s habits and the laws of science.
[Issue 144: June/July 2021: Tallis in Wonderland]

Criticising Science

Martin Kusch and Alexander Reutlinger discuss the ways science is criticised.
[Issue 142: February/March 2021: The Tree of Knowledge]

Mary Midgley (1919-2018)

Nat Dyer looks at the humanity of a philosopher who tried to make philosophy more human.
[Issue 140: October/November 2020: Brief Lives]

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