Category: Medicine
A Scholarly Riposte to Pop Free Will Denialism
Denial of free will is a quick route to totalitarianism. If you can’t be guilty because you can’t choose, you can’t be innocent either.
Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth
Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development.
My Question for P. Z. Myers: How Did Human Consciousness “Evolve”?
Human consciousness entails a unique ability to think abstractly — to reason, to think logically, to use language, to do mathematics, to exercise free will.
After Death — A Riveting Glimpse of the Hereafter
There sure are a lot more things about reality than are captured by a narrow naturalistic view.
Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs
A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least.