Season of the Witch

Can science be the source of human values? The only source? That’s the idea behind Secular Scientific Humanism. SSH is…

HELP! MY SELF-DRIVING CAR IS A ZOMBIE!

This is the time of year to talk about monsters, and Sean Carroll does not miss the opportunity. A few…

Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks have been having an entertaining series of conversations in the on-line section of the New…

Richard Dawkins thinks the greatest story ever told is the story of evolution. He’s got a point. It…

Does philosophy—its study or practice—make us happy? Should it? The word is from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally “love of wisdom”.…

Dan Dennett is a materialist. Dualists think that there are two kinds of things in the world—mind and body. Dennett…

In criminal trials, juries are often asked to figure out what kind of thought process was going on in the…

“Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.” —Tom Nagel One of…

In The Big Picture, Sean Carroll is anxious to reject religious ideas of the immortal soul, and this makes him…

Francis Crick opened his book The Astonishing Hypothesis with this salvo: Q: What is the soul? A: The soul is…