Philosophy & Ethics

what could possibly be done about it, a more fundamental question is whether Platt is correct at all in ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Sep 19 2008 - 5:59pm

Wittgenstein arguing that all philosophical problems are just misunderstandings of language (I’m simplifying ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jan 16 2013 - 6:32am

do routinely send correspondence to all authors, while others communicate only with a designated ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jul 11 2009 - 12:08pm

confident that they are uncontrollable and will always result in a predeterminated outcome. After all, that ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Sep 5 2009 - 2:02pm

perfectly valid to look at all of the parts of a phenomenon in isolation from each other, and that merely ...

Article - L.K. Tuominen - Mar 20 2010 - 8:53pm

a natural right. Right? The libertarians in us all recoil at something that might defy such 'genomic ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2013 - 10:01am

care about Earth Day, pass by Non-GMO Project and all the other mercenary nonsense that companies sell ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 18 2024 - 2:42pm

electron somehow knew it had to resonate at that frequency which I calculated.” Ok, first of all, nature ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Mar 23 2010 - 1:51pm

be commended and, dare I say it, easily understood. We all can agree that having minds that grow and ...

Blog Post - Brian Taylor - Jan 2 2011 - 2:30pm

When will I emerge from it? Why am I still not enlightened? Is leaving behind all that is left to ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - May 29 2014 - 3:30am

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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 · 1 day 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 · 2 days 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 · 3 days ago

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