Philosophy & Ethics

Neuroscience has a problem. It may appear to be a mere philosophical problem but has practical implications for the broader philosophy of science and the scientific method. One of the big projects…

This is a question on the Philosophy of Science examination paper for the BPhil at Oxford, as set last year. "Does the success of a scientific theory justify belief in the entities that the theory…

For the sake of argument Argument - a discussion for the purpose of making something clear. Sake - benefit. To introduce an idea 'for the sake of argument' does not mean bringing up an idea to…

Bad habits of ineffective science: Trends in Biochemical Sciences has a piece on Mental inertia in the biological sciences. I'm not quite sure what to make of it, but the piece does contain some…

Lapham's Quarterly has published a long essay, Secular Revival by Warren Breckman, editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas. The article starts by looking at the dream of the scientific…

Avalon, "Isle of the Blessed", is a legendary island famous for its beautiful apples, featured in the Arthurian legend described by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of…

This is an authorized English translation of the paper by an outstandingRussian economist Mikhail Gennadievich Delyagin, as appeared in theRussian-speaking Internet on 19.03.2009 under the following…

Babylonian astronomy sounds a lot like some areas of omics/computational biology today: Looking back at Babylonian astronomy from the twentieth century, one is struck by two things: the care with…

Recently, I came across a review paper that shows a considerable amount, of progress in the last decade or so, in the understanding of the structure of liquids. That paper “The …

  QUESTIONS SCIENCECAN NEVER ANSWER   Ayad Gharbawi   February 20,2010 – Damascus, Syria     Thereare far too many aspects of ‘Reality’ that atheistic scientists/…