Tag: "philosophy of science"

Joined-up Thinking

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Editorial]

Philosophy, Science, And Everything In Between

Massimo Pigliucci at the 2006 Philosophy of Science meeting in Vancouver.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Science Connections]

The Structure of Musical Revolutions

Edward Slowik investigates Kuhn’s philosophy of science through an analogy.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Science Connections]

Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
[Issue 59: January/February 2007: Dear Socrates]

Philosophical Astronomy

by Joel Marks
[Issue 58: November/December 2006: Moral Moments]

What is a Thought Experiment, Anyhow?

Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci asks.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006: Science]

The Truth about Heresy?

Grant Bartley lays down the law in favour of the ‘right’ sort of heresy.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006: Heresy]

Biotechnologies: Tweaking Here, Tuning There. Is that all we need?

Following on from last issue’s focus on medical ethics and bioethics, Inmaculada de Melo-Martín says we aren’t thinking deeply enough about what the problems with bioethics really are.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006: Articles]

Is Ethics a Science?

Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci asks.
[Issue 55: May/June 2006: Science]

The Placebo Effect

A short story by Emrys Westacott about drugs, money and bioethics.
[Issue 55: May/June 2006: Short Story]

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