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In his book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, E.O. Wilson laid out a grand vision for how the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities might be coherently interrelated. Given how ...

But there is another problem lurking in the tripartite theory of knowledge. In 1963, Edmund Gettier published a two-and-a-half page paper showing that it is possible to hold a justified true belief ...

I am always fascinated about how much great information there is online. I'm also a bit miffed at how much that information can hold back patients. When you have a chronic illness, there is the period ...

When humans and animals face a specific situation or problem, they typically have an overall idea of how to approach it. For instance, when walking into a shop, humans will know that they should tell ...

When a key person takes a leave of absence, it’s not uncommon for group task performance to slip amid a kind of mild, sustained panic as the rest of the team flounders. How do you deal with that ...

The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit. Why? It is impossible for ...