philosophy-of-science

Metaforms addresses a recurrent failure of philosophical description: explanatory nouns compress operations, constraints, witnesses, transfers, and consequence paths, then license inferences the underlying relations do not support. Rather than proposing a replacement vocabulary, the paper develops an operation-first method — case-level verb → constraint operator → typed result ledger — that recov…

Scientists aren’t always right, and new evidence can always emerge to disprove a theory. Still, philosophy helps explain why there is good reason for us to trust science regardless.

As genetic engineering and DNA manipulation tools like CRISPR continue to advance, the distinction between what science ‘could’ and ‘should’ do becomes murkier.

A professor shows science students how humanities classes are the real stem that other disciplines sprout from. They learn that critical thinking and skepticism don’t stop when they leave the lab.

It’s the year 2100. You wake up alone in a small, windowless room. The only other thing in the room is a small ball. Maybe the room is located in your city, but maybe it’s inside that new spaceship everyone’s…

There’s a good reason you should care about the discovery of gravitational waves, even if you don’t understand the science.

_Quarterly Scientific Journal of Applied Ethics Studies_ 11 (42):279-309. 2016Martin Heidegger is among the first philosophers to have deeply engaged with the question of technology. At the same time, he faces the criticism that he failed to offer a clear solution for properly confronting this phenomenon of modernity, limiting himself instead to a phenomenological and detached examination of it. …