This paper addresses the question of what the nature of science is. I will first make a few
preliminary historical and systematic remarks. Next, I shall give an answer to the question …

In this article, we review some of the key attributes of useful theories and assess whether
these attributes are present in several prominent Community Psychology theories. The field …

Evidence‐based practice (EBP) is an influential interdisciplinary movement that originated in
medicine as evidence‐based medicine (EBM) about 1992. EBP is of considerable interest to …

Undoubtedly, emotions sometimes thwart our epistemic endeavours. But do they also
contribute to epistemic success? The thesis that emotions' skew the epistemic landscape', as …

Translated by Alex Levine The nineteenth century was a formative period for
electromagnetism and electrodynamics. Hans Christian Orsted's groundbreaking discovery …

This chapter provides an overview of the issues involved in recent debates about the
epistemological relevance of emotions. We first survey some key issues in epistemology and …

At any moment of the history of science, there are certain theories that the scientific
community of the time accepts as the best available descriptions of their respective domains …

This book presents a history of the self-report crime survey as a method of criminological
inquiry, describing how it was born within a distinct moral framework by pioneers out to show …

Typisch für experimentelles Denken ist vor allem das Generieren und Überprüfen von
Hypothesen. Es bildet die Grundlage für naturwissenschaftliches aber auch für …

The aim of this paper is to offer an account of epistemic justification suitable for the context of
theory pursuit, that is, for the context in which new scientific ideas, possibly incompatible with …