Good Science: A Textbook for History and Philosophy of Science Courses
Drawing upon a sequence of the most important breakthroughs in the history of science, Good Science develops a ground-breaking argument about the evolution of social reality. Good Science is composed...
View ArticleAgency vs. Determinism: Redefining Reality One Creative Idea at a Time
A surprising number of people believe that the universe is deterministic (Hawking, 2007; Kurzweil, 2005; Skinner, 1971—among many others). Determinists believe that humans don’t have any control over...
View ArticleScience, Technology and the Future: The Promises and Pitfalls of Elevated...
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them”—Albert Einstein As we assess the current state of global affairs, it is easy to become...
View ArticleA Prelude to Good Science
I tend to agree with Karl Popper far more than I disagree. Nevertheless, I diverge from Popper over his under-specification of truth (BTW: I work out the particulars of this argument in much greater...
View ArticleCajun Culture Wars: Another Victory for LouSEA Science Education
On June 2, 2011, Mark Guarino reported in the Christian Science Monitor that the Louisiana Science Education Act managed to survive a recent legal challenge in the Louisiana legislature. Sadly, that...
View ArticleCondoning Criminality: Sam Harris’ Warped Determinism
Are we all but hapless pawns of Fate, or can humans exert some measure of creative control over the course of their lives? Beginning with Laplace, hard determinists have claimed that they can literally...
View ArticlePlanet of the Persnickety Apes: Darwin and the Aesthetics of Survival
For reasons that anthropologists have not yet fully uncovered, Homo sapiens evolved a pronounced aesthetic sensibility (Schellekens and Goldie, 2011): not only has Homo sapiens developed more...
View ArticleLive Long and Prosper: The 100 Year Starship Project
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them”—Albert Einstein The Defense Advanced Research Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently...
View ArticleThe Ideology of Darwin
Humanity used to believe in God, but now they believe in Darwin. This is a bit of an extreme statement, since most people still believe in God, but the sentiment is accurate. Darwin's theories of the...
View ArticleStephen Hawking’s God: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
Homo sapiens has enjoyed singular success at tweaking the environment because of the unique psycho-social wiring of the human mind ( Pagel ). Hearkening back to the nature-nurture debate, the human...
View ArticleDarwin Day: Celebrating the Scientist that People Love to Hate
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who celebrate Darwin Day, and those who don’t. Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809-1882) is without doubt one of the most important scientists who ever...
View ArticleGood Science: A Textbook for Social Theory Courses
Truth and Science After The Sokal Hoax It’s easy to beat up on postmodernists these days. Ever since the Sokal Hoax, the postmodernists’ Waterloo, the science wars have been a rout. Once it became...
View ArticleDarwin Day: Celebrating the Scientist that People Love to Hate
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who celebrate Darwin Day, and those who don’t. Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809-1882) is without doubt one of the most important scientists who ever...
View ArticleGood Science: A Textbook for History and Philosophy of Science Courses
Drawing upon a sequence of the most important breakthroughs in the history of science, Good Science develops a ground-breaking argument about the evolution of social reality. Good Science is composed...
View ArticleGood Science: A Textbook for Social Theory Courses
Truth and Science After The Sokal Hoax It’s easy to beat up on postmodernists these days. Ever since the Sokal Hoax, the postmodernists’ Waterloo, the science wars have been a rout. Once it became...
View ArticleDarwin Day: Celebrating the Scientist that People Love to Hate
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who celebrate Darwin Day, and those who don’t. Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809-1882) is without doubt one of the most important scientists who ever...
View ArticleGood Science: A Textbook for History and Philosophy of Science Courses
Drawing upon a sequence of the most important breakthroughs in the history of science, Good Science develops a ground-breaking argument about the evolution of social reality. Good Science is composed...
View ArticleDarwin Day: Celebrating the Scientist that People Love to Hate
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who celebrate Darwin Day, and those who don’t. Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809-1882) is without doubt one of the most important scientists who ever...
View ArticleGood Science: A Textbook for History and Philosophy of Science Courses
Drawing upon a sequence of the most important breakthroughs in the history of science, Good Science develops a ground-breaking argument about the evolution of social reality. Good Science is composed...
View ArticleDarwin Day: Celebrating the Scientist that People Love to Hate
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who celebrate Darwin Day, and those who don’t. Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809-1882) is without doubt one of the most important scientists who ever...
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