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Scientific Theories Are Intellectual Constructs
We are experiencing the birth pangs of a new era in the lives of the Homo sapiens because of rapid advances in AI, robotics, and automation and the...
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Revisiting the Scientific Nature of Multiverse Theories
Some scientists or philosophers argue that multiverse theories are unfalsifiable and thus not scientific. However, some advocates of multiverse...
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Scientific Realism from a Polysystemic View of Physical Theories and their Functioning
One of the vividly discussed topics in the contemporary philosophy of science (especially physics) is the opposition between Realism and...
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2500 years ago scientific theories of the origin of life arose in ancient Greece
What have the Greeks ever done for us? Everything. This short commentary celebrating the earliest history of origin of life research seeks to bring...
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Who Says Scientific Laws Are Not Explanatory?
In this article, we tackle the phenomenon of what seems to be a misunderstanding between science education theory and philosophy of science—one which...
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‘Does the Claim that there are no Theories Imply that there is no History of Theories to be Written?(!)’*
In There Are No Such Things As Theories (French
2020 ), the reification of theories is critically analysed and rejected. My aim here is to tease out... -
What Is a Scientific Theory?
In this chapter I first present the objectifying attitude, which is characteristic of science, in contrast with the holistic attitude, which is...
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The pragmatic turn in the scientific realism debate
In recent years there has been a noticeable yet largely unacknowledged ‘pragmatic turn’ in the scientific realism debate, inspired in part by van...
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Emergence, Continuity, and Scientific Realism
Scientific realism postulates that science aims for truth in both the domains of the observable and the unobservable, and is capable of achieving...
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Interacting chiral form field theories and \( T\overline{T} \)-like flows in six and higher dimensions
In this paper we initiate the study of six-dimensional non-linear chiral two-form gauge theories as deformations of free chiral two-form gauge...
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Revisiting Scientific Theories, Towards Human Well-Being-Oriented Built Environments
The design paradigm in architecture and the built environment evolves with time. Each era was dominated by a distinct design paradigm. In the modern...
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Moderate Realism and Deduction from Truthlike Theories
Moderate realists hold that scientific theories are truthlike, rather than exactly true. Although scientific realism has been challenged by arguments...
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Truth Tables, True Distinctions. Paradoxes of the Source Code of Science
On the occasion of a growing popularity of paradox theory in management and organisation research, this article provides an introduction to the...
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Entanglement entropy from form factors in \( \textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}} \)-deformed integrable quantum field theories
In two recent papers [
1 ,2 ] we have proposed a program of study which allows us to compute the correlation functions of local and semi-local fields... -
Personality Theories
Our knowledge of personality is very extensive. It is understandable that we try to substantiate this knowledge in an artistic way. This means that...
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When to dismiss conspiracy theories out of hand
Given that conspiracies exist, can we be justified in dismissing conspiracy theories without concerning ourselves with specific details? I answer...
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Single case studies are a powerful tool for develo**, testing and extending theories
Psychology embraces a diverse range of methodologies. However, most rely on averaging group data to draw conclusions. In this Perspective, we argue...
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Scientific Realism: What Is at Stake?
This chapter begins by discussing what Bas van Fraassen called “the loss of reality objection”. Since models are constructed by our action of...
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Conspiracy Theories
Current thinking about conspiracy theories is dominated by epistemological and psychological approaches. The former see the study of conspiracy...