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 ...

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A quick rebuttal (of sorts) to my post Science is rational; scientists are not: Peer review and the scientific community is not what distinguishes science from other areas of knowledge. After all ...

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, ...

Vol. 67, Supplement. Proceedings of the 1998 Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association. Part II: Symposia Papers (Sep., 2000), pp. S138-S150 (13 pages) Logical Empiricism is commonly ...

Who shot down the Malaysian Airlines flight over Ukraine? Given the technology required to strike a commercial airline flying at high altitude, we may know the answer soon enough. But finding out who ...