Karl Popper
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Karl Popper is a landmark figure in the philosophy of science. His notion of “falsifiability”…
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How to Humbly Disagree
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Poetry as a Way of Knowing
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What is poetry? Mere word play? A pretty, or at any rate striking, way of…
Cognitive Bias
December 15, 2019
Aristotle thought that rationality was the faculty that distinguished humans from other animals. However, psychological…
Knowing What We Know (And What We Don’t)
September 22, 2019
It seems like we know many facts about ourselves and the world around us, even…
The Value of a College Education
June 16, 2019
With 43.3 million Americans burdened with a total of $1.3 trillion in student loan debt,…
Intuition a Guide to Truth?
December 17, 2017
Turns out that Galileo was right and Aristotle was wrong: in a vacuum, a feather…
Transformative Experiences
August 6, 2017
We are faced with decisions all the time in life. Normally, we think about the…
Second-Guessing Ourselves
June 11, 2017
We like to think of ourselves as self-aware, reflective beings, but psychological studies demonstrate that…
The Dark Side of Science
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Science aims tell us something about nearly everything, from the atoms in our cells to…
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