Empiricism

Latest research

1. A science-first theory of confirmation

   • Caitlin Mace

   in Metascience

   Article 30 March 2026

2. How can authors address reflexivity in quantitative studies?

   • Patricia O’Sullivan
   • Susan van Schalkwyk
   • Ayelet Kuper

   in Advances in Health Sciences Education

   Article 30 March 2026

3. Argumentation about Energy in Elementary School, from Evidence and from Models

   • Roger G. Tobin
   • Sara J. Lacy
   • Sally Crissman

   in Research in Science Education

   Article Open access 30 March 2026

   

4. The limits of virtue(s): underdetermination beyond empirical equivalence

   • P. Kyle Stanford

   in Metascience

   Article Open access 30 March 2026

5. There are no pseudosciences, only pseudoscientists

   • Byron Hyde

   in Metascience

   Article 30 March 2026

6. The illusion of rigor: Why analytical sophistication cannot substitute for inferential coherence

   • Aamir Rashid
   • Rizwana Rasheed

   in Theory and Society

   Article 27 March 2026

   

7. Validated chaos theory for robust bearing fault diagnosis

   • Paulo R. L. Almeida
   • Thyago L. V. Lima
   • Abel C. Lima Filho

   in Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering

   Article Open access 27 March 2026

   

8. Chang’s hermeneutic operational coherence: ambiguities and prospects

   • Fons Dewulf

   in European Journal for Philosophy of Science

   Article Open access 26 March 2026

9. Sorting out and navigating uncertainty in precision medicine

   • Cornelius Borck
   • Simon Lohse

   in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

   Article Open access 24 March 2026

   

10. Unveiling the potential of peer review information in predicting citation impact

    • Jaemin Chung
    • Seunghyun Lee
    • Wan Jong Kim

    in Scientometrics

    Article 24 March 2026

    

11. Statistical Stockholm syndrome: the statistical significance myth is the problem

    • Edward E. Rigdon

    in Journal of Marketing Analytics

    Article 24 March 2026

12. Animating scientific understanding

    • Alfredo Vernazzani

    in Philosophical Studies

    Article Open access 24 March 2026

    

13. Dumb holes: universality or analogy? What makes an analogue experiment an analogue experiment?

    • Karen Crowther

    in Synthese

    Article Open access 23 March 2026

    

14. Refining the causal descriptivist theory for scientific terms

    • Sabrina Hao

    in Synthese

    Article 23 March 2026

15. The surprise account of modal knowledge acquisition

    • Samuel Boardman

    in Synthese

    Article Open access 23 March 2026

    

16. Neuroprognostication After Cardiac Arrest: From Test-Centered Prediction to Ethically Constrained, Longitudinal Decision-Making

    • Javier Andrés Mora-Arteaga

    in Neurocritical Care

    Article 23 March 2026

    

17. Searching high and low: precision measurement, machine learning, and experimental discovery in particle physics

    • Adam Koberinski

    in Synthese

    Article 23 March 2026

18. Complementary causal approaches to support biodiversity change attribution

    • Anne Thomas
    • Wilfried Thuiller
    • Andrew Gonzalez

    in Nature Reviews Biodiversity

    Article 19 March 2026

    

19. Of Epistemes and Insects: How Drosophila and Butterflies Shape Our Understanding of Radiation Risk

    • Donna M. Goldstein
    • Magdalena E. Stawkowski

    in Journal of the History of Biology

    Article Open access 19 March 2026

20. The experimental psychology behind coordination

    • Flavia Padovani

    in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

    Article Open access 18 March 2026

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