Looking at Simon Blackburn’s webpage linked to by Humphrey in his post below, I came across this review of Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate ....

In part 1 I explained what the Anthropic Principle is and gave some examples to illustrate it. Basically, the idea is that certain conditio...

I have recently finished Brian Greene’s The Fabric of the Cosmos . Greene is one of the leading cheerleaders for string theory and much of ...

‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Ri...

When I heard that Professor Robert Bartlett was presenting a series of shows on Inside the Medieval Mind for BBC4, I was quite exciting. B...

E really does = mc 2 . Finally I can exhale. Discuss this post at the Quodlibeta Forum Click here to read the first chapter of God's P...

Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Lee Randolph argue that as a result of recent advances in behavioral and neural science it is hard to pres...

The history of Science began as a discipline towards the end of the 19th century with the emergence of such works as John William Draper’s ...

In a previous post I referred to black holes as ‘the sculptors of the cosmos’. This may actually turn out to be the wrong metaphor. NASA’s ...

In his Pensées the great mathematician and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal presented the following allegory for the human condition: ‘...