Changing Minds on Climate Change
April 20, 2025
There is consensus among scientists that global warming is real and that it’s caused by…
Karl Popper
July 28, 2024
Karl Popper is a landmark figure in the philosophy of science. His notion of “falsifiability”…
Zhuangzi: Being One with Ten Thousand Things
November 5, 2023
Zhuangzi, the 4th-century BCE Chinese philosopher, was arguably the most important figure in Taoism. He…
Explanation At Its Best
April 24, 2022
In science as well as everyday life, we often feel the pull of simpler, more…
Does Science Over-reach?
April 4, 2021
We’ve all heard the phrase, “You can’t argue with science.” Appealing to scientific fact as…
Should Beliefs Aim at Truth?
November 10, 2019
If beliefs can be described as having a goal or purpose, then surely that is…
Intuition a Guide to Truth?
December 17, 2017
Turns out that Galileo was right and Aristotle was wrong: in a vacuum, a feather…
Taoism: Following the Way
December 13, 2015
Taoism (sometimes Daoism) is one of the great philosophical traditions of China. Lao-Tzu, who is…
Beliefs Gone Wild
May 15, 2011
Our brains evolved on the African savannah, but are now expected to deal with complex…
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