Author: Michael Egnor
Can a Determinist Change the World?
G.K. Chesterton told an amusing story of a young man who wrote to him extolling the truth of solipsism.
Teleology and the Mind
Perhaps the turning point in modern philosophy of science was the abandonment of teleology by Francis Bacon.
In Astronomy, the Inference to Design Is Flourishing
KIC 8462852, nicknamed “Tabby’s star” after the astronomer who first noted its unusual behavior, has intervals of extreme occultation.
Against “Darwinian Medicine”
Randolph Nesse laid out his vision of medical science informed by Darwinian speculations two decades ago.
A Dehumanizing Ideology Unsurprisingly Catalyzes Violence
Ideas have consequences. That includes reducing human beings to animals or meat robots, deprived of free will or any claim to human exceptionalism.