It's a tiny bit controversial . The idea that 'reason' doesn't drive people's actions, but whatever society they, ah, identify with or exist within. Effectively 'mob rule'. The article goes on about ...

Can you be a strident defender of science and still be suspicious of the way it is appropriated within culture? Can you be passionate about the practice and promise of science, yet still remain ...

The economist Friedrich Hayek originally popularized the term ‘scientism’ in his 1952 book The Counter-Revolution of Science as a synonym for pseudoscience. The word later came to represent the ...

The terms people use to stoke disbelief and doubt in science can be costly. In today’s Academic Minute, Florida Institute of Technology’s Moti Mizrahi details how. Who is to blame for slowing the ...

“Scientism” is the belief that all we need to solve the world’s problems is, you guessed it, science. People sometimes sub in the phrase rational thinking, but it amounts to the same thing. If only ...

Abortion is one of the most polarizing social issues of our time. It has become a “war” between those who support abortion rights (the pro-choice movement) and those who oppose abortion rights (the ...

Today on the Academic Minute: Moti Mizrahi, associate professor of philosophy in the school of arts and communication at Florida Institute of Technology, explores how people use rhetoric to stoke ...