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Question posted on May 2, 2013; 1 response
What does allow scientist to make moral and ethical judgements? I always thought that science is purely neutral and objective(yes I know this is an illusion, even if we destroy all bias and all string pullers(government, private/commercial sector) still even...
Ethics, Science Show

Question posted on April 18, 2013; 1 response
Is the claim that all scientists believe in man made global warming and thus so should you an illegitimate appeal to authority?...
Science Show

Question posted on April 4, 2013; 1 response
Is it a contradiction to believe in God and also in science? I believe in evolution and look at the Big Bang theory skeptically, but I also believe in God as the creator of everything. Many have often told me...
Religion, Science Show

Question posted on March 29, 2013; 1 response
Am I guilty of some kind of inconsistency if I reject scientific consensus about evolution, global warming, the big bang, etc., but still make regular use of modern technology?...
Science Show

Question posted on November 8, 2012; 2 responses
I have a question about what one might call "scientific astrology." "Astrology" as a predictive indicator, let's assume for discussion, has been discredited. "Astrology" as a coincident indicator, perhaps, let's not be too hasty. Imagine first an agrarian society barely above subsistence level....
Science Show

Question posted on September 26, 2012; 1 response
Is computer science a "science" in the same way as the natural sciences? Sometimes I think it more closely resembles math, in that the kind of reasoning it is engaged in is in some sense a priori....
Science Show

Question posted on September 22, 2012; 1 response
Would it be fair to say that philosophy is a manipulation of words, and that scientists deal with the relationship between language and extra-language observations? Thus "truth" would primarily be a language concept according to which consistency between words would...
Philosophy, Science Show

Question posted on June 7, 2012; 1 response
I have a question about the entities in scientific theories and models. The status of some of these objects seems intuitive. Frictionless planes, for example, though they don't exist, seem helpful enough as an abstraction for understanding how actual...
Science Show

Question posted on April 26, 2012; 2 responses
I'm attending a lecture on the philosophy of science, and our professor told us yesterday that "we constantly rely on inductive reasoning all the time in our lives, such as when we assume that the floor won't suddenly collapse beneath...
Knowledge, Science Show

Question posted on March 22, 2012; 1 response
Why are scientists so keen on unification in their theories? Do we have reason to think that unified theories are likely to be correct? Or are they just desirable for other reasons--convenience, aesthetics, etc.?...
Science Show

Question posted on February 29, 2012; 2 responses
Stephen Hawking, in his recent book entitled The Grand Design, states that philosophy is dead. Without going into the reasons behind his thinking, I'd like to know the response of current philosophers to Hawking's statement. He has laid down a...
Philosophy, Science Show

Question posted on February 16, 2012; 1 response
what is the fundamental difference between science and non-science? aware of popper's theory of falsification, i still am unsure of how a theory can only be scientific if it can be proven false? this seems rather contradictory; what about if...
Science Show

Question posted on February 9, 2012; 1 response
Is atheism a scientific worldview? Many people who try to promote atheism seem to think so....
Religion, Science Show

Question posted on January 26, 2012; 1 response
Is modern philosophy too abstract? I mean when it asks questions about being does it ask questions that about any kind of being when perhaps it could be asking question about the particular kind of being that we live in?...
Existence, Science Show

Question posted on January 3, 2012; 2 responses
Would it be accurate to say that the relationship between scientific theory and the material world is like the relationship between a map and the territory it represents?...
Science Show

Question posted on November 23, 2011; 2 responses
Is religion the true enemy of freedom in a democratic society since it teaches us that we have to think a certain way or is science since it teaches us that nobody is truly free but a product of deterministic...
Freedom, Religion, Science Show

Question posted on November 23, 2011; 1 response
I consider myself a (metaphysical) materialist or, to use the synonymous term that is more fashionable nowadays, physicalist, and I'm familiar with the academic literature on contemporary materialism/physicalism. But in no paper or book did I find really satisfying, fully...
Physics, Science Show

Question posted on November 23, 2011; 1 response
Let's say I have a machine with a button and a light bulb where the bulb lights up if and only if I press the button. I don't know anything about it's inner workings (gears, computers, God), I only know...
Logic, Science Show

Question posted on September 29, 2011; 1 response
Is the concept of backward causation coherent and is it really taken seriously by philosophers? I doubt whether any scientist would accept the idea and I would like to know what you think. ...
Science, Time Show

Question posted on September 9, 2011; 2 responses
Sigmund Freud told of a Jewish women who dreamt that a stranger handed her a comb. The women desired to marry a Christian man which triggered an emotional argument with her mother on the night prior to her dream. When...
Mind, Science Show




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