Tag: Politics
Weekend Reading: Heretics and Inquisitors
A heresy might be true or it might be false, but part of its attraction lies in offering a rallying cry against the smirk of the mighty.
The “Virus That Infected Philosophy”
Egnor explains, “Nominalism is the view that universals exist only as concepts in the mind, but not in reality.”
From Pfizer, Scientism and Self-Congratulation
Amidst a controversial national lockdown, economic ruin, and mounting intelligence evidence pointing to an origin in a Chinese lab, the coronavirus has reminded us of a number of things.
Balancing Lives, Economics, and Public Policy in This Plague
Our political policy makers (the President, Congress and the Senate, governors, etc.) should make their calculus transparent.
Freeman Dyson: The Passing of an Iconoclastic Physicist
Dyson was careful to take an open-minded approach: not fully endorsing design, yet not rejecting it either.