When Greece's economic troubles began to threaten the stability of the European Union in 2010, the nation found itself in the center of a whirlwind of international finger-pointing. In the years prior, Greece appeared to be politically secure and economically healthy. Upon its emergence in the center of the European economic maelstrom, however, observers and critics cited a century of economic …
Philosophy of science emerged as a distinctive part of philosophy in the twentieth century. Its birthplace was continental Europe, where the neat Kantian scheme of synthetic a priori principles that were supposed to be necessary for the very possibility of experience (and of science, in general) clashed with the revolutionary changes within the sciences and mathematics at the turn of the twenti…