Science denial has a long history of causing harm in contemporary society when ignored.
Recent discussions of science denial suggest that correcting people's false beliefs rarely …

Debates about scientific realism are closely connected to almost everything else in the
philosophy of science, for they concern the very nature of scientific knowledge. Scientific …

First, I answer the controversial question'What is scientific realism?'with extensive reference
to the varied accounts of the position in the literature. Second, I provide an overview of the …

According to the antirealist argument known as the pessimistic induction, the history of
science is a graveyard of dead scientific theories and abandoned theoretical posits. Support …

We have previously argued that historical cases must be rendered canonical before they
can plausibly serve as evidence for philosophical claims, where canonicity is established …

The disabled people's rights movement coined the term ableism in the 1960's/1970's to
highlight problematic uses of ability normativity, and they also coined the term disablism to …

Objective This study leverages argumentation theory to combat the growing threat of health
disinformation by enhancing public competency in evaluating health-related information …

My target is the epistemological dimension of the realism debate. After establishing a stance
voluntarist framework with a Jamesian background, drawing mostly on Wylie, Chakravarty …

After decades of intense debate over the old pessimistic induction (Laudan, 1977; Putnam,
1978), it has now become clear that it has at least the following four problems. First, it …

More than 50 years after the publication of Thomas Kuhn's seminal book, The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions, this volume assesses the adequacy of the Kuhnian model in …