Marshall Abrams, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Philosophy, teaches about and conducts research on philosophy of science. The College of Arts and ...

Philosophy of science at its best seems to me a pleasing gloss on the history and discoveries of science.” Here Weinberg makes the all-too common mistake of thinking of philosophy as of an activity ...

1:00 Lunch (Participants are on their own for this. There are many good restaurants to choose from on the Hill nearby.) 2:30 Saakshi Dulani (Johns Hopkins) "Revitalizing Non-Reductive Phyiscalism in ...

Philosophy of science interrogates the nature, boundaries and assumptions of scientific inquiry. It examines how theories are formulated, tested and ultimately accepted or revised, and explores the ...

Marga Vicedo is a historian of science in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Evelyn Fox Keller achieved prominence for her ...

In a discussion on philosophy, Bertrand Russell defines philosophy as speculation about matters beyond current scientific knowledge. He contrasts philosophy with science, stating that while science ...

Philosophy of science examines how scientific knowledge is created, tested and applied. It asks foundational questions about evidence, explanation, models and scientific reasoning across disciplines ...