research – Investigating Knowledge

Testing the Universe

Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, confronts us with the question of to what extent our theories of cosmology are testable.

Northeastern University psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett on how harnessing theory of knowledge can deepen one’s understanding of emotions.

Making Models examines various aspects of how models are constructed and applied across different disciplines in the arts and sciences.

When is it time to discard a scientific theory? Well, when it no longer works properly, of course. After all,

What does intuition really mean? For some it’s a mysterious mode of penetrating truths that we can’t fully explain or

To most scientists, human emotion is something to be minimized at all costs in their pursuit of rigorously objective understanding