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Why Can’t My Computer Understand Me?
Hector Levesque thinks his computer is stupid—and that yours is, too. Siri and Google’s voice searches may be able...
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Steven Pinker embraces scientism. Bad move, I think
Steven Pinker has written a long essay in The New Republic embracing scientism. That's really too bad, because this...
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Science Is Not Your Enemy
The great thinkers of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment were scientists. Not only did many of them...
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Moving Naturalism Forward
Videos from a gathering of philosophers, physics, biologists, and others who met for a three-day seminar.
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State of the World’s Science
The pursuit of knowledge is now a global enterprise. Scientific American and Nature have teamed up on this special...
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Remembering Paul Kurtz
Herb Silverman for On Faith’s Guest Voices, reflecting on the life and contributions of Paul Kurtz, who died October...
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What Can You Really Know?
Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story is a portrait gallery of leading modern philosophers....
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When Knowledge Explodes
We like to believe that more information allows us to make more informed decisions, to be more knowledgeable. That's...
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Separating the Pseudo From Science
Say “pseudoscience,” and immediately a bunch of doctrines leap to mind: astrology, phrenology, eugenics, ufology, and so on. Do...
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Living in Denial
From climate change to vaccines, evolution to flu, denialists are on the march. Why are so many people refusing...
