Philosophy & Ethics

Women Donate Less To Charity Than Men

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?

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

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

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

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

Laws And Flaws

Laws and Flaws The roots of miscarriages of justice.   Although this article is about the common law, the author hopes that it may be of more than passing interest to scientists and to all seekers after truth.   Over the course of some twenty years the au ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 15 2014 - 6:43pm

Sagan Beats Dawkins. In Related News, Education Overcomes Superstition

I have been doing public outreach for science since I originally moved to Tennessee in 1996. It has been a fun ride, and I’m sure it will continue to be that way for many years to come. But two of the first things I learned when debating creationists and ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jun 25 2013 - 4:02pm

Theories Of Truth

I have wanted to comment for some time about a number of available “theories of truth.” The occasion has now been presented by the fact that I am writing the fourth chapter of my new book (on whether and how philosophy makes progress, forthcoming from Chic ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jul 7 2013 - 6:46pm

When Science Is Wrong

By now everyone is familiar with some of the more controversial topics in policy discussions featuring scientific topics, so that GMO foods or climate change are readily recognized as "hot button" items.  Without getting into those discussions, o ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Jul 10 2013 - 12:21pm

Democracy: The Egyptian Conundrum

Back in 1992, Francis Fukuyama famously argued that the advent of Western liberal democracy spelled nothing less than the endpoint of sociocultural evolution: we have finally discovered the best way to govern people and organize society, and that’s gonna b ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jul 11 2013 - 5:30am