Philosophy & Ethics
- Can Pharmaceutical Advertising Regulate Itself?
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In America, science is as polarized as politics. Corporate scientists, like at pharmaceutical companies, are criticized for working at unethical companies while academic scientists are criticized for 'chasing funding' rather than helping people. ...
Article - News Staff - May 2 2013 - 12:00pm
- What’s The Point Of Demarcation Projects?
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Readers of this blog know very well by now that, despite (or is it because of?) being both a scientist and a philosopher, I have often defended the idea that science and philosophy are distinct disciplines, and I am critical in particular of those who I th ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - May 4 2013 - 10:48am
- Even Intelligent Design Requires Evolution
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Intelligent Design is often presented as a view that runs counter to evolutionary theory. Whether it be the concept of natural selection or ideas about speciation, Intelligent Design (ID) purports to reconcile the observed environment from the perspective ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - May 7 2013 - 1:48pm
- Capitalism Kills Morality- And So Does Socialism, Say Economists
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Do you support unions, a minimum wage, dislike business and hate child labor and then tell all of your friends on your iPhone? People rationalize moral standards when it comes to their own lives, say economists writing in Science. It's easy to lament ...
Article - News Staff - May 10 2013 - 1:32pm
- The Evolved Doubly Social Society Should Be Selfish And Deadly
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Social structure is an imposition, but by definition one that ‘should’ be imposed, meaning by the origin of the meaning of “should” in the co-evolution of the social with our language. ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - May 26 2013 - 8:14am
- Women Donate Less To Charity Than Men
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Which gender is more generous? Given the social, subjective nature of the question and the influx of armchair philosophy into culture, everyone claims to have the right answer. What about an experiment? A group of economists have found that, given the cha ...
Article - News Staff - May 28 2013 - 5:30pm
- Love And Reason?
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Recently I attended a talk by Ronnie de Sousa, a philosopher at The University of Toronto, by the somewhat unusual, almost oxymoronic, title of “Love and Reason” (as opposed to, say, Love or Reason). It turned out to be a fascinating tour de force ranging ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jun 8 2013 - 5:00am
- Embrace Your Animality, Says French Philosopher
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You're an animal, says Dominique Lestel, a French philosopher who opposes the separation of human and animal life. In a new paper, Lestel reminds sociology readers that we are animals and says animals profoundly influence our culture – perhaps more ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2013 - 1:01pm
- Psychopathic Philosophy Asperger Version Of A Core Question Of Philosophy
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Temple Grandin’s “ The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum ” [1] belongs to a new(ly fashionable but old) way of thinking that supports my own approach, namely that pathologic (psychopathic) thinking is necessary for new-enlightenment, for exampl ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 23 2013 - 2:05pm
- In Defense Of Pharmacy
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In defense of Pharmacy and Catholic Pharmacists was written during the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign. This was not written for publication but for my own piece of mind, to justify my own career. At that time pharmacy, was under attack, recently the attac ...
Article - Jim Myres - Jun 20 2013 - 10:31am
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