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What is the relationship between basic concepts and mathematics in physical theory?

Doing some background reading in Einstein, I came across the following quotation which inspired this question: Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on...

01 January 2015 5,934 94 View

What are space and time?

Space and time are widely used concepts or categories. They play a major role and are critically discussed in physics, natural science in general and in philosophy. A quote of Kant is: "Space and...

01 January 2015 2,153 26 View

What is the scientific method suitable for research in the area of legal philosophy?

To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry is commonly based on empirical or measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning. (Rules for the study of natural philosophy", Newton...

01 January 2015 9,611 18 View

How can I select advice from an expert?

All judgments rely on advice from what people call ‘experts’. As an example, someone might ask advice to develop an under-explored science domain for children or young students. If 20 experts...

12 December 2014 2,213 21 View

Is there a role for sense-data in epistemology of modern physics?

It is known that physics is empirical science, in the sense that all propositions should be verified by experiments. But Bertrand Russell once remarked that the principle of verifiability itself...

18 November 2014 4,083 54 View

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Is there a role for sense-data in epistemology of modern physics?

It is known that physics is empirical science, in the sense that all propositions should be verified by experiments. But Bertrand Russell once remarked that the principle of verifiability itself...

11 November 2014 5,912 55 View

To what extent is theory building a step by step process that can be learned and practiced, as opposed to being a creative enterprise?

There is a tension between those who assert that theory building process is out of the domain of methodology because it depends more on the creative mind of the theorist and those who support the...

11 November 2014 8,226 24 View

How can, and should, we measure the impact of the hegemony of research production and dissemination in English?

I am wondering what is lost, neglected, omitted and/or diminished but the increasing insistence on publishing primarily or exclusively in English. Does this mean that researchers do not read in,...

21 October 2014 8,105 25 View

What are the links between scientific reasoning on one side, and religious, political, medical, media or popular ways of thinking on the other side?

Every scientific activity has some relationship, negative or positive, with the other ways of human thinking, which may occur in diverse instances, such as religion (i.e. hermeneutics), politics,...

10 October 2014 3,945 10 View

Why science should be reductionist? Why scientists should not be reductionist?

I would like to hear your opinion on this philosophy of science topic. These two questions reflect my biais towards these issues but I am open to hear all the opinions.

09 September 2014 5,000 8 View

Do you still agree with the content of own older publications?

Scientists can publish during several decades. The first own publications may have appeared more than 20 years ago. Do you still agree with the content of first own publications, and if not, why not?

07 July 2014 4,098 15 View

What is the difference between the words "Hypoteses" and "Postulat"?

While Hipotesis and Postulatets are common, no strict defenition exist for either.

07 July 2014 3,358 8 View

Is it possible to apply Godel's incompleteness theorem to scientific theories?

Godel's incompleteness theorem is normally applied to mathematics. But i just found an article by Michael Goodband who argues that GIT can also be applied to scientific theories,...

07 July 2014 6,446 14 View

Do you trust theory reduction, stating that the whole is nothing more than the sum of its parts?

Reductionism deals with the relation between different theories that address different levels of reality, and uses extrapolations to apply that relation in different sciences. Reality shows a...

07 July 2014 9,913 34 View

What is the future of "Fringe Science"?

Fringe Science is a novel idea and will most probably be an effective style to rethink, modify or execute our present way of thinking. What do you say?

07 July 2014 7,185 5 View

How many citations are required to call a cited publication influential?

Impacts of individual publications are often measured via citation rates. Average citation per publication rates differ across research domains (e.g. Mathematics versus Ecology). Is there a...

01 July 2014 1,363 88 View

When do we know an explanation or a theory is wrong in clinical psychology?

Dear all, one of my difficulties when I am planning my survey design is to decide which questionnaires I should include. The literature is full of evidence showing relationships between so many...

30 June 2014 7,757 7 View

What does the Heisenberg uncertainty principle tell us about causality?

In The Nature of the Physical World, Eddington wrote: The principle of indeterminacy. Thus far we have shown that modern physics is drifting away from the postulate that the future is...

12 June 2014 7,488 77 View

Is the rate of the production of new ideas higher than the rate of studies truly testing these ideas?

New (fantastic?) ideas are probably published every day. Perhaps proposing an idea during a discussion may take 5 seconds. By contrast, testing one idea may take years. Does this imply that the...

06 June 2014 3,955 39 View

What will be the success of a scientifically correct theory when only one bright person truly understands that theory (e.g. the creator of a theory)?

Can a theory only have success in science when at least two people understand that theory and its scientific consequences? What is the minimum number of people required to produce a...

06 June 2014 2,359 21 View

How risky it is in science to spend your whole life on a theory that isn't experimentally confirmed?

I have read some introductory string theory. I was amazed by it. But is it experimentally confirmed the existence of those small vibrating strings? I feel sometimes to put a check on myself to...

06 June 2014 7,441 3 View

What does the Heisenberg uncertainty principle tell us about causality?

In The Nature of the Physical World, Eddington wrote: The principle of indeterminacy. Thus far we have shown that modern physics is drifting away from the postulate that the future is...

06 June 2014 6,684 79 View

What are the terms for various ontological positions? Are realism and relativism ontological positions? If yes, what do they mean?

I have decided that Constructionism is going to be my epistemology, after I read Crotty (1998). He does not explicitly mention the ontologcial variations.

06 May 2014 4,083 33 View

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