For decades, cigarette companies helped to promote the impression that there was no
scientific consensus concerning the safety of their product. The appearance of controversy …

This article starts an engagement on the aesthetics of experiments and offers an account for
analysing how aesthetics features in the design, evaluation and reception of experiments. I …

As technology comes to characterize our world in ever more comprehensive ways there are
increasing questions about how the'rights' and'wrongs' of technological use can be …

Like the philosophy of science in general, the philosophy of biology has traditionally been
mostly concerned with theories. For a variety of reasons, the theory that has by far attracted …

A survey of models in immunology is conducted and distinct kinds of models are
characterized based on whether models are material or conceptual, the distinctiveness of …

The holistic thesis developed by Pierre Duhem challenges the idea that our evidence can
conclusively falsify a theory. Given that no scientific theory is tested in isolation, a negative …

Our paper discusses the epistemic attitudes of particle physicists on the discovery of the
Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is based on questionnaires and …

This book examines the problems, pitfalls and opportunities of different models of assessing
research quality, drawing on studies from around the world. Aimed at academics, education …

Causal pluralism can be defended not only in respect to causal concepts and
methodological guidelines, but also at the finer-grained level of causal inference from a …

This article discusses how inference to the best explanation (IBE) can be justified as a
practical meta-argument. It is, firstly, justified as a practical argument insofar as accepting the …