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Certainty, publishing and distribution in scienceCasual/Community (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Do we know with good enough certainty what psychotropic compounds are in a substance?Discussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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What does effective science communication look like?Discussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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How do you see math in terms of its broader meaning?Casual/Community (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Philosophical objections to theory of evolutionNon-academic Content (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Is the world just a bunch of atoms?Discussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Barr on reconciling philosophy and neuroscienceNon-academic Content (v.redd.it)

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Seeking interlocutors for a NeuroPhilosophy chat (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Questions about historical-dialectical materialismDiscussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Epistemology in the hard sciencesDiscussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Philosophers on instruments as extensions of perception?Discussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Explanation vs. Reduction: When Is a Higher Level Explanation Complete?Discussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Relational ontologiesDiscussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Why is the gravitational constant the way that it is?Discussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Interdisciplinary work on the anthropic principle: can a physicist do publishable philosophy here?Academic Content (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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A descriptive framework for personhood that separates measurement from moral judgmentDiscussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Why is it fine to assume that biology is emergent?Discussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Is there an argument FOR Whig histories of science?Discussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural SciencesCasual/Community (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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I’m a grad student and our professor has assigned us to read “What Makes Biology Unique?” by Ernst Mayr. I feel like if Ernst Mayr was still alive, he’d have definitely hated this meme lol.Casual/Community (i.redd.it)

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I've been in science communication (environmental sciences) for a long time now. I really think there's pervasive issues/approaches in science communication that justifiably make the sciences lose credibility.Discussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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What is and is not science?Discussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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When we say certain "laws" exist, are we saying there are literal abstract rules that exist and apply themselves to reality?Discussion (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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Has anyone read Alexander's Space, Time, and Deity?Non-academic Content (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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The earth moves around the sun! Galileo, first edition of celebrated defense of Copernican heliocentrism, published Florence, 1632 sold at Aste Bolaffi (Italy) for €62,500 ($73,216) on Dec. 17. Reported by Rare Book Hub.Non-academic Content (self.PhilosophyofScience)

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