Tag Archives: philosophy of science
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Evolutionary biologists are storytellers. We are in the business of telling more or less informed stories about the evolution of lineages. But we operate under a curse. What we are most interested in,...
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In the last few years, it has become apparent that there are two theories of cosmology that can claim to successfully explain the observations. The standard theory is called the LCDM (Lambda-cold dark...
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In 2017, the influential online platform Edge.org asked leading academics as its question of the year: “What scientific term or concept should be more widely known?” Martin Rees, former President...
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Is philosophy of science of any use to biologists? A well-known response is that philosophy of science is as helpful to science, as ornithology is to birds. Whether or not it was Richard Feynman who actually...
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"Why do birds have wings?"
"Why do eagles have wings?"
"Why do penguins have wings?"
"Why do ostriches have wings...?"...
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One of the greatest challenges in fundamental physics is to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity in a full theory of “quantum gravity”. It is a challenge that has by turns excited...
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On November 21 the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen delivered a keynote address on the occasion of being honored with the International Leadership Award from the Anti-Defamation League, an organization...
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James Zimring discusses the struggle of how to evaluate the claims of science in a world that demands an ever more rigorous consideration of how much confidence to put in such claims. Each of us is t...
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Evolutionary biologists are storytellers. We are in the business of telling more...
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In the last few years, it has become apparent that there are two theories of cosmology...
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In 2017, the influential online platform Edge.org asked leading academics as its...
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Is philosophy of science of any use to biologists? A well-known response is that...
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"Why do birds have wings?"
"Why do eagles have wings?"
"Why do penguins have wings?"
"Why do ostr...
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One of the greatest challenges in fundamental physics is to reconcile quantum mechanics...
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On November 21 the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen delivered a keynote address...
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James Zimring discusses the struggle of how to evaluate the claims of science in a world that demand...
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