Philosophy & Ethics

described above was (a) a generous, highly valued member of the community beloved by all, or (b) a violent ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - May 14 2010 - 4:42pm

yet, Australia could simply forbid political donations from all publicly funded entities. Setting a cap ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 3 2015 - 11:00am

wavelengths. Follow the spectrum from red over orange and yellow all the way to blue, then close the circle ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 16 2013 - 11:38am

Asimov, the first to list all Three Laws of Robotics. Credit: Wikipedia The six values are designed ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2014 - 10:26pm

to all the unreasonable demands of one vocal constituency. You never really imagine anyone being that ...

Blog Post - Asha John - Nov 11 2009 - 8:40pm

in the subjective realm. He suggested that all chairs in the physical realm are imperfect variations ...

Blog Post - Delian Valeriani - Jul 11 2009 - 12:18pm

precisely as far as necessary, all as a strict implication of the “realm of logic” (the implied physical is ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 1 2016 - 2:33am

religious moral reasoning. There is much to value in this tradition. Most of all it is a celebration of the ...

Blog Post - Asha John - Nov 18 2009 - 5:09pm

outcome, however indirectly? Is He not all-powerful, all-good and all-knowing? I mean, when a human-made ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jan 14 2009 - 4:59pm

the fiasco of the Humanity at all. I am leaving to read "The tree in the center of Kabul" by ...

Blog Post - Pavel Kurakin - Apr 16 2010 - 4:38am

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John
”Just this week, Iran responded to Israel preemptively bombing their planned nuclear weapons facility by launching missiles, and the Israeli missile defense system, the Iron Dome, stopped most of...

Golden Dome Missile Shield A 'No-Brainer', According To EMP Expert · 18 hours ago
John
We can know that this isn't purely a Trumpian thing because of the reviews from two years ago which basically said: 1) Astronomers have treated the people of Hawai'i like crap and owe...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
Hontas Farmer
I'm not going to say you are wrong about any of the above. I'd not be surprised by a rising price tag as that seems to be how these things always go. I can't think of any big science...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
John
To be honest, TMT did this to themselves by not being honest about the cost from the start. Had they told everyone that the cost for the installation would be on the order of $3 billion (most of...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 2 days ago
Zack Y.
Isn't this a dangerous inversion of how science is supposed to be done? What's to prevent this same scenario playing out for ANY potential discovery coming from a precision measurement...

The Anomaly That Wasn't · 2 days ago

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