Quote of the day by John Locke: His philosophy, rooted in empiricism, posits that all knowledge stems from experience. His ...

I've been reading George Novack’s Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View (1968). It's a flawed book, but it does contain a lot of useful material. Starts out by noting that “empiricism” has a ...

College Composition and Communication publishes research and scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies that supports college teachers in reflecting on and improving their practices in teaching ...

In the late 20th century the humanities took a turn toward postmodern deconstruction and the belief that there is no objective reality to be discovered. To believe in such quaint notions as scientific ...

Many of us who are engaged in the world of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy feel like underdogs. We feel that our theories have been devalued, dismissed by managed care, American medicine, ...