Category: Philosophy of Science

What is it to be a scientist? What do scientists mean and understand by the word "scientist"? What do non-scientists mean and understand by that same word "scientist"? Are non-scientists really not scientists? And are scientists really scientists? You get up in the morning, go pee, wash your hands and face with cold water, brush your teeth, [...]

A few days ago at the dinner table, my son mentioned that one of their Theory of Knowledge teachers had explained to them on that day that gravity was not a force, but instead that it was an epiphenomenon in the sense that it arose as a consequence of the presence of mass and energy in [...]