Even if you don’t recall many facts from high school biology, you likely remember the cells required for making babies: egg and sperm. Maybe you can picture a swarm of sperm cells battling each other ...

The feasibility of objective social science has been the subject of much controversy in which Max Weber's thought looms large. In this article Edward Portis argues that Weber's position on objectivity ...

There are many possible reasons for the public’s declining trust in journalism — it’s falling for pretty much everyone — but it’s plausible that one of them is the difference in that way journalists ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay points out that Popper's theory of the objectivity of science is ambiguous: it is not clear whether it provides a guarantee of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American One of the qualities we expect from good ...

Prologue: objectivity shock -- I. Epistemologies of the eye: Blind sight -- Collective empiricism -- Objectivity is new -- Histories of the scientific self -- Epistemic virtues -- The argument -- ...

“If the substance of a thing is made of its relations with other things, a way to show that substance is to prove that these relations resist, that they are recalcitrant.” Let’s be honest: Nobody ...

A video livestream will be available on this page starting at 2:30 PM on Wednesday, December 15th. Please scroll down to view. On December 15, AEI hosted a conversation about the roles of expertise ...

TOKYO (AP) — Objective, science-based monitoring is the key to safely carrying out the planned release of treated but still radioactive water at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, an ...