As with all conspiracy theories, once the first imaginative jump is made, the rest follows with intoxicating logic. ~ Paul Johnson, A history of the Jews The idea of the enlightenment was to advance ...

Philosophy of Science, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Sep., 1998), pp. 472-501 (30 pages) Information theory offers a measure of "mutual information" which provides an appropriate measure of tracking efficiency for ...

John Capps received his Ph.D from Northwestern University in 1997. The focus of his research is within epistemology and the philosophy of science, where he has been influenced by the work of classical ...

Philosophy, the journal of The Royal Institute of Philosophy is published by Cambridge University Press quarterly in January, April, July and October. The editorial policy of the journal pursues the ...

When asked the question, "What is a theory?" most of my students (regardless of age or educational level) respond with an explanation that is akin to "a reasonable, educated/informed guess." Indeed, ...