If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. We like to think we live in the age of science -- that is, that science, our most rigorous attempt at thought, is ...

In Friday’s Financial Times, economist and author Tim Harford offers a much-needed, unusually considered response to big data hype, using the reported failure of Google Flu Trends to predict a recent ...

I've been reading George Novack’s Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View (1968). It's a flawed book, but it does contain a lot of useful material. Starts out by noting that “empiricism” has a ...

Is reading PPE at Oxford any sort of qualification to be a good politician? To judge from the markets’ reaction to the UK government’s economic policy, one deduces that they emerge knowing much about ...

College Composition and Communication publishes research and scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies that supports college teachers in reflecting on and improving their practices in teaching ...

The best scientific explanations satisfy two standards at the same time: they are elegant and they are empirically substantiated. When a theory or a model explains a phenomenon clearly, directly and ...

Many of us who are engaged in the world of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy feel like underdogs. We feel that our theories have been devalued, dismissed by managed care, American medicine, ...