*As readers have likely gathered, here at the blog we're mighty keen on "design fiction" and "architecture fiction," while science fiction is, of course, pretty much an existential given. *But what ...

Scientific realists endeavor to secure inferences from empirical success to approximate truth by arguing that, despite the demise of empirically successful theories, the parts of those theories ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 175, No. 3 (March 2018), pp. 553-578 (26 pages) Many believe that there is at least some asymmetry ...

What’s your favorite ism? There are so many to choose from. Many of us today are rejecting isms in general as hazardous to our health. But the sad fact is that even if we don’t acknowledge or actively ...

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The Big Ideas: What Is Reality? Fixing our flawed perception of what is real will take nothing less than a revolution. By Ben Okri Mr. Okri is a poet and novelist. This essay is part of a series ...

That value is asserted with gentle but firm assurance by Michela Massimi, the recent recipient of the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal, an award given annually by the UK’s Royal Society. Massimi’s prize ...

Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) represents a central method in scientific inquiry, wherein the hypothesis that best accounts for the available evidence is provisionally accepted. This approach ...