Can a theory that isn’t completely testable still be useful to physics? What determines if an idea is legitimately scientific or not? This question has been debated by philosophers and historians of ...

Conor Clarke points to Greg Mankiw's table of propositions to which most economists agree. This list is from Mankiw's economics textbook, so I assume that it was not casually constructed. Mankiw says ...

About 90 years ago, philosopher Karl Popper noticed that Freud’s theories explained everything. That may sound like a good thing. Who wouldn’t want such a powerful theory? But Popper argued that a ...

Tom Solomon receives funding from the National Science Foundation.. How does a scientific theory gain widespread acceptance in the scientific community? Why should the public and elected officials be ...