The new “moral scientists” address ethics solely through empirical methods and try to put moral claims on a secure scientific footing. Julian Baggini reviews “Science and the Good” by ...

Namely, science deals with empirical reality -- with what happens in the world, i.e. what "is." Two scientific theories may disagree in some way ...

President Obama entered office promising to restore the sanctity of science. Instead, a fresh war against science, statistics, and reason is being waged on behalf of politically correct politics.

Empirical science is alive and well! ALAN H. GUTH Massachusetts Institute of Technology. DAVID I. KAISER M.I.T. ANDREI D. LINDE Stanford University. YASUNORI NOMURA University of California, Berkeley.

The bottom line is that modern empirical natural science is one of the most powerful systems of justification humans have ever constructed. And it turns out that it can be framed by a central concept.

Psychology is a science in crisis, both with respect to theoretical coherence and practical efficiency. This, he says, is not a problem that could be remedied by further development of psychological ...

Episode 2 traces the dramatic fight in the second half of the 20th century to develop mental illness standards rooted in empirical science rather than dogma, including the evolution of the DSM ...