Philosophy of Science
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump. Joseph Wright ‘of Derby.’ The proverbial canary in the coal mine is dead.
An outline of how the primary means of scientific communication has been corrupted and perverted by capitalist ideology.
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Ruins of Rome. Giovanni Paolo Panini. Rome circa 298.456239 kelvin.
We use time as the fourth co-ordinate. Could we replace our co-ordinates with measures of physical parameters? Probably not.
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The Seven Legends: Self Portrait. Albert Richards. Not enough oxygen and you become blue in the face. Albert Richards was the youngest of three official British war artists to die in combat during WWII.
Do scientists merely make conclusions based on what they observe or do they rather construct a conclusion with support of their observation? We present an argument that gaps exist between what scientists know and what they conclude and that these gaps are both unavoidable and potentially useful.
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The promise. Henry Scott Tuke. Love is blind. Are animals?
How does one know what an animal feels? Are we limited to knowing what an animal does? We grapple with concepts of sentience and consciousness, using the concept of blindsight to uncouple two descriptors that are often used interchangeably.
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The Abbey in the Oakwood. Caspar David Friedrich. Religious beliefs are less and less common. However, the void has not remained unfilled.
In a time of decreasing identification with religion, we explore how some individuals outsource their need for escapism to theories and technologies emerging in the realm of physics.
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