Large Cosmic Lessons in Physics
Is the universe trying to tell us something?
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The Legacy of John Archibald Wheeler
John Wheeler likes to say that his career has moved through three phases, from “Everything is particles” to “Everything is fields” to “Everything is information.”
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Lee Smolin on the Nature and Future of the Universe
What is the future of the future? Will it all end in fire or in ice? And what kinds of events will the penultimate reveal? Jill Neimark asks theoretical physicist Lee Smolin.
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Physics and Process Thought
A review of John A. Jungerman’s “World in Process: Creativity and Interconnection in the New Physics.”
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Is Music Dead?
David Cope, the author of more than seventy published compositions and a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, invented a form of artificial intelligence that can emulate the great composers. It is called Experiments in Musical Intelligence.
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Altruism in Groups: Evolutionary Biological and Psychological Evidence
A review of “Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior” by Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson.
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Pandemonium Tremendum
Excerpts from “Pandemonium Tremendum: Chaos and Mystery in the Life of God”
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The Epistemology of Testimony
If the role of testimony in knowledge is so vast, why is its role in the history of epistemology so slight?
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Four Dimensions of the Scientific Tradition
It is crucial to identify the salient features of distinct aspects: science itself, the philosophical view known as scientific realism, the metaphysical ideology of scientific materialism, and the dogmatic form of that ideology known as scientism.
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Confessions of a Trinitarian Evolutionist
Thomas Jay Oord interviews German Lutheran theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg.