Philosophy & Ethics
- Euthanasia: Families Support Terminal Sedation For Relatives In A Permanent Vegetative State
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The families of some very severely brain injured patients believe that once all treatment options are exhausted, allowing their relatives to die with the help of terminal sedation would be a humane and compassionate option. The authors interviewed the fam ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2014 - 2:20pm
- Mathematical Universe? I Ain’t Convinced
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So the other day Julia Galef and I had the pleasure of interviewing mathematical cosmologist Max Tegmark for the Rationally Speaking podcast. The episode will come out in late January, close to the release of Max’s book, presenting his Mathematical Univers ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jan 16 2014 - 10:59am
- The Undergraduate Atheists’ Thesis
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I am not particularly friendly to the so-called New Atheism. ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jan 21 2014 - 12:12pm
- The Philosophy Of Suicide
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In a forthcoming episode of the Rationally Speaking podcast, Julia and I discuss the philosophy and science of suicide, i.e. what empirical inquiry tells us about suicides (who commits them, how, what are the best strategies for prevention) and how philoso ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jan 27 2014 - 6:04am
- The “Meta” Itch
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I used to have the “meta” itch, but I learned to live with it and stop scratching it. It only irritates anyway, without doing much good work. Let me explain. If you are a regular (or even occasional) reader of Rationally Speaking you know that we often pub ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Feb 3 2014 - 9:53am
- The SciPhi Of Gay Adoption
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Gay marriage is rapidly becoming less and less controversial, at least in the Western world. Yes, the battle hasn’t been won just yet, both in Europe and in the US, but we are getting there at a pace that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. T ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Feb 18 2014 - 10:26am
- Dear Mr. President: To Restore Trust, Stop Saying That Paul Revere Was An NSA Agent
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America has developed a surveillance problem, hiding behind a facade of security. Britain has been down this road before, the average citizen in London is photographed 300 times per day by government, which has done nothing to reduce crime. Thus it makes ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2014 - 5:30am
- Genomics May Usher In A New Era Of Scientific Racism
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A hundred years ago, progressive efforts to bring about Utopia led to eugenics and social Darwinism, efforts to breed out undesirable traits by sterilizing people who had them. The concept was endorsed by luminaries such as the author H.G. Wells, economis ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2014 - 4:30am
- The Income Gap In Assisted Suicide
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It used to be that only rich people could afford to be fat. Now only rich people can afford to be thin. And there's even a growing income gap when it comes to suicide. Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland but that doesn't make it equal, and ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2014 - 10:09pm
- Is Information Physical? What Does That Mean?
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I’ve been reading for a while now Jim Baggott’s Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth, a fascinating tour through cutting edge theoretical physics, led by someone with a physics background and a healthy (I thi ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Feb 24 2014 - 1:04pm
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