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Robert Lawrence Kuhn has published a series of videos on his "Closer to Truth" site. On March 4, 2024 he posted a teaser video int...

Evelyn Fox Keller died a few days ago (Sept. 22, 2023). She was a professor of History and Philosopher of Science at the Massachusetts Inst...

This is a debate sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy on the question "Has science killed philosophy?" It suffers from o...

A remarkable paper has just been posted to a philosophy of science preprint website. (It will be published in Synthase .) Like many papers i...

Most of us learned that science provides good answers to all sort of questions ranging from whether a certain drug is useful in treating COV...

Richard Dawkins has written an essay for The Spectator in which he says, "[Science is not] a social construct. It’s simply true. Or a...

This post is mostly about a recent paper published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Biol & Biomed Sci where two philosophers pre...

I just learned about a workshop scheduled for the end of this month. The topic is: Evolutionary Roles of Transposable Elements and Non-codin...

Random genetic drift is the process whereby some allele frequencies change in a population by chance alone. The alleles are not being fixed ...

Paul Draper is a philosopher at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, USA). He has just (Aug. 2, 2017) posted an article on Atheism a...

The discussion about philosophy continues on Facebook. One of my long-time Facebook friends, Jonathan Bernier, took up the challenge. Bernie...

I've been discussing the contributions of philosophy on Facebook. Somebody linked to a a post on the topic: What has philosophy contribu...

Are you surprised to hear a religious person say that science and religion are not in conflict? Of course you aren't. That's just wh...

The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach contains a review of two books about evolution written by philosophers. The author of...

I was reading up on non-coding RNAs and came across this recent paper. Bhartiya, D., and Scaria, V. (2016) Genomic variations in non-codin...

Postgenomics is a compendium of twelve scholarly articles by philosophers and sociologists who write about the implication of the human gen...

Some of you may not be able to come to our little "dialogue" tomorrow night. Don't worry, you can watch it on YouTube: Is Ther...

The answer is "no" according to Jerry Coyne and I agree with him [ “Other ways of knowing”: Out of Africa ]. What about music, a...

Massimo Pigliucci is an atheist who thinks that science and religion are compatible because they rule in different domains. He takes a very ...