Understanding Society

Science proceeds through research communities whose participants share important and often distinctive features of thought and method. This ...

Derek Parfit hit the philosophy firmament in the early 1960s, while Karl Popper arrived on the Vienna scene three decades earlier. David Edm...

Some discussion of the empirical status of social science theories and hypotheses in the past has revolved around Karl Popper's formulat...

How do complex, socially embodied processes of cultural and scientific creation work? (I'm thinking of artistic traditions, scientific r...

Let's think about the intellectual influences that have shaped philosophers of science over the past one hundred years or so: Vienna Cir...

image: University of Vienna, 2016 I am enjoying reading David Edmonds' The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna ...

The history of philosophy is generally written by subject experts who explore and follow a tradition of thought about which figures and ...

It seems that there is a kind of inverse Malthusian structure to scientific research and knowledge. Topics for research and investigatio...