Big Data promises to revolutionise the production of knowledge within and beyond science,
by enabling novel, highly efficient ways to plan, conduct, disseminate and assess research …

To improve the provision of psychotherapy, many countries have now established clinical
practice guidelines for the treatment of specific disorders and mental health concerns. These …

A heated debate surrounds the significance of reproducibility as an indicator for research
quality and reliability, with many commentators linking a “crisis of reproducibility” to the rise …

Some of the chief goals of science-understanding, explanation, prediction, and application
in new technologies-can only be conducted with any purpose if the world has some …

Speaking directly to economic and political geographers working on uneven development,
this article critically examines the deployment of two key concepts, mechanism and process …

In Explaining Cancer, Anya Plutynski addresses a variety of philosophical questions that
arise in the context of cancer science and medicine. She begins with the following …

How fixed are the happenings in Nature and how are they fixed? These lectures address
what our scientific successes at predicting and manipulating the world around us suggest in …

Hans-Christian Ørsted introduced the term “thought experiment” to philosophy in 1811,
although it did not get much philosophical attention until the 1980s. This is therefore a …

Research in the health sciences has been highly successful in revealing the aetiologies of
many morbidities, particularly those involving the microbiology of communicable disease …

Francesco Guala once wrote that 'The problem of extrapolation (or external validity as it is
sometimes called) is a minor scandal in the philosophy of science'. This paper agrees with …