This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Instances of negative causation—preventions, omissions, and the like— have long created philosophical worries. In this paper, I argue that ...

Having a positive mindset in math may do more than just help students feel more confident about their skills and more willing to keep trying when they fail; it may prime their brains to think better.

In this paper, I argue that the "positive argument" for Constructive Empiricism (CE), according to which CE "makes better sense of science, and of scientific activity, than realism does" (van Fraassen ...