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 treats knowledge as ever-evolving, rather than fixed in place. Scientific theories do not need to capture reality perfectly to be valuable; they need to work in context.

This is part 3 of a series. See part 1 here and part 2 here. Daniel C. Dennett is an emeritus professor at Tufts University and one of the most influential philosophers and cognitive scientists of his ...

Noel Swanson, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. His research areas include philosophy of physics philosophy of science, and logic. “On the ...