All modern sciences began as merely natural philosophy and gradually matured into the powerful, reliable, and vibrant disciplines that we have today. I do want to identify the primary epistemic [...]
Some disciplines and systems of methods that have a wide number of followers and practitioners might seem to be scientific, but they are actually pseudoscientific. This includes any belief [...]
Today I want to offer some thoughts on the distinction between qualitative and quantitative research. This is important to me, since a lot of people seem to think that legitimate and reliable [...]
Today I want to offer some thoughts on the relation between empirical knowledge and metaphysical understanding. This drives off last week’s post on the analytic/synthetic distinction. [...]
Today I want to offer some thoughts on the analytic/synthetic distinction. I see this as one of the foundational epistemic dimensions, which means that every principled way of knowing or [...]
For this post, I want to explain the distinction between monolectical consensus-building, which involves finding a single source to build consensus around, and dialectical thinking, which [...]
