What is “MENS” knowledge? It stands for modernist empirical natural science. It is also, of course, a play on words that references the fact that, as a system of justification, modern empirical ...

Knowledge space theory (KST) provides a rigorous mathematical framework to represent an individual’s knowledge state as a collection of items or skills that have been mastered. This framework, which ...

In 1998, the famed sociobiologist and naturalist Edward O. Wilson published Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. As suggested by the subtitle, "consilience" refers to a unified picture of human ...

Most economists subscribe to a belief in “positive economics,” which means that economic theory flows from economic data. Thus, all theory can be tested for ...