Kenosis and Nature
With living things, questions of level mingle with questions of identity, which mingle with questions of persisting and perishing.
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The Science of Compassion—A Talk with Evan Thompson
If Evan Thompson, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto is right, cognitive science will be a meeting ground for East and West, or more precisely, a meeting ground for western science and the world’s enduring contemplative traditions.
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Of Meontic Freedom & Panexperientialism
An Interview with David Ray Griffin.
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The Feast of the Elements
Might it be our time in history to begin honoring the birth of the elements?
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Stephen Jay Gould: An Appreciation
Stephen Jay Gould is dead. He died Monday morning of cancer. In his life, he was many things: a Harvard professor, a baseball fanatic, an enthusiastic singer of oratorio, an outstanding evolutionist, and above all the greatest science writer of his generation. Young people of all ages, in America and elsewhere, have grown up on…
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An Interview With Sherrilyn Roush
Sherrilyn Roush, an assistant professor of philosophy at Rice University, takes on the philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics. She is extraordinarily intelligent on cosmology. Physicists, open the golden doors, usher her in.
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Q&A With Seth Rozin
An interview with playwright and director Seth Rozin about his play “Missing Link,” a deeply human drama centering around a couple, Nathan and Gloria Berman, who lose their only child in a tragic plane crash and are catapulted into conflicting crises of faith.
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Edward Kennedy — Expert on Science?
In the March 21st, 2002, edition of The Washington Times [www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20020321-76780268.htm], Sen. Edward Kennedy takes exception to Sen. Rick Santorum’s March 14 Commentary piece, “Illiberal Education in Ohio Schools” [http://asp.washtimes.com/printarticle.asp?action=print&ArticleID=20020314-5]. Santorum, who supports intelligent design, argues that Ohio public schools should be open to teaching it. Kennedy, who has publicly supported the teaching of alternate…
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Emergent Relativity
The incompatibility of relativity and quantum mechanics is of great interest, particularly in light of recent advances in string theory.
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Figuring the Odds in God’s Casino—Pascal Revisited
“If you’re living like there’s no God,” a popular bumper sticker warns, “you’d better be right.” A fringe of flames at the sticker’s base provides a clue to the hellish price of error. Whether consciously or not, this modern folk wisdom sums up “Pascal’s Wager,” the living legacy of Blaise Pascal, a brilliant 17th century…