Physics is a field of science that has traditionally used the scientific method to answer
questions about why natural phenomena occur and to make testable models that explain the …

The empirical study of belief is emerging at a rapid clip, uniting work from all corners of
cognitive science. Reliance on belief in understanding and predicting behavior is …

" Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be
so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since …

Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality. Nonetheless, science requires
idealization to function—if we are to attempt to understand the world, we have to find ways to …

In the past decades, reductionism has dominated both research directions and funding
policies in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The intense search for the biological basis of …

We are sceptical of concerns over the opacity of algorithmic decision tools. While
transparency and explainability are certainly important desiderata in algorithmic …

Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the
world's overall causal structure. Some mathematical proofs explain why the theorems being …

What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that
consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief …

In the 1950s, John Reber convinced many Californians that the best way to solve the state's
water shortage problem was to dam up the San Francisco Bay. Against massive political …

When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard
Feynman's notes, he saw it as a" record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however …