Philosophy & Ethics
- To the 25th anniversary of Badabera revolt of Soviet and Afghan captives in Pakistan
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The Russian TV channel STS has recently shown all movies about Rambo. I like the films and Stallone despite of the fact that Rambo, in the 3rd movie, kills Soviet soldiers and officers in Afghanistan. It is exactly the 1st point to stress in this review: i ...
Blog Post - Pavel Kurakin - Apr 16 2010 - 4:38am
- Philosophy for kids
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About a week ago, I asked the question " What is the most important field of science for the public?" Many of the comments suggested that general reasoning skills are more important than any particular scientific knowledge because they would prov ...
Blog Post - Adam Retchless - Apr 21 2010 - 10:36am
- About Sam Harris’ Claim That Science Can Answer Moral Questions
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The buzz in secular circles lately has been about a TED talk by Sam Harris, the author of The End of Faith, ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Apr 22 2010 - 6:14pm
- The Future Of Philosophy Of Science
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I am in Tilburg, Netherlands, for a conference on the future of philosophy of science. Ah!, you might say, and what would that look like? ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Apr 26 2010 - 10:27pm
- The Origins Of Virtue
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A few weeks ago I picked up a copy of Matt Ridley’s The Origins of Virtue at a second-hand bookstore, (never give a gene-centric a royalty, I always say!) but I must say that it is well-written, interesting, loaded with facts without being tedious, and wor ...
Article - Steve Davis - May 10 2010 - 11:54am
- Case History: Medical And Ethical Quandary
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In medicine, physicians often present case histories or case reports of an interesting situation/patient, along with the outcome (typically a diagnosis) and discussion. 1 On controversial cases, medical ethics can be invoked (although not quite to the expe ...
Article - Becky Jungbauer - May 14 2010 - 4:42pm
- Participatory And Emancipatory Autism Research: What’s The Problem?
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Today I am including a guest paper on this blog, from my academic supervisor, Dr Mitzi Waltz. The paper written back in 2006, and things have improved slightly since, two of the organisations cited have since merged to become "Autism Speaks" an ...
Article - Laurence Arnold - May 16 2010 - 1:12pm
- The Science Of Whitewash
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The Science Of Whitewash A complaint often leveled against climate scientists is that they fake their graphs and that investigations into such fakery which fail to show fakery must accordingly be a whitewash. I have news for these people. All graphs are f ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 5 2010 - 5:10pm
- What is science?
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Negative aspect Long time ago I used to think that science is a way to take raw data and logically deduct statements about the world. I used to think that it has some kind of strong metaphysical foundations, which let us prove statements; that we can then ...
Blog Post - Helium Väli - Jun 15 2010 - 5:47pm
- Clausewitz On Science
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Clausewitz On Science Clausewitz On War- yes. But Clausewitz On Science? Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz is famous for his book Vom Kriege- On War. In that book he is very specific in stating that there is no 'science of war'. In order f ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 17 2010 - 11:32am
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