This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We report the results of a study analyzing the proportion of theoretical and empirical articles in two core health economics journals. The ...

I've been reading George Novack’s Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View (1968). It's a flawed book, but it does contain a lot of useful material. Starts out by noting that “empiricism” has a ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.8085368.3 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.8085368.3 Is there a human nature on which we can construct scientific theories of political life ...

This week, a group of about 100 physicists and philosophers have gathered in Munich to reassess a question at the heart of science: “Why trust a theory?” In an opinion piece by George Ellis and Joe ...

I am often asked by psychologists and other scientists if there is “empirical support” for the Tree of Knowledge System. My first response is: “Absolutely. Look around. Material objects behave in ...

About a decade ago, I talked with my niece and shared this conundrum: “How do you know that the red I see is the red you see?” To this day, I remember her reaction. Her eyes widened, and she said, ...

Theoretically speaking, there is widespread confusion about the word "theory." Right? Many people interpret the word as iffy knowledge, based mostly on speculative thinking. It is used ...