From Aeon, must science be testable? String wars among physicists have highlighted just how much science needs philosophy — and not just the amateur version. The scientific inquisition: Tuomas E. Tahko finds a place where metaphysics and science meet. The seven edges of knowledge: Jonathan Ree reviews What We Cannot Know by Marcus du Sautoy (and more). A different kind of logic: Philip Ball on the science of the inconceivable. No, science is not faith-based. Are there barbarians at the gates of science? Robbert Dijkgraaf on how the increasingly complex border between science and society is changing both. Atul Gawande on the mistrust of science. Who will debunk the debunkers? Sometimes, the harder that we try to be clear-headed, the deeper we are drawn into the fog. What if we’re wrong? History suggests everything will be disproved.
