Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prize-Winning Physicist Says
In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility, and the irrationality of nonbelief.
Scientific American
Topics: Atheism Humility Knowledge Limits of Science Marcelo Gleiser Science & Religion Dialogue Spirituality
Opinion: Why Science Needs Philosophy
Philosophy can have an important and productive impact on science.
PNAS
Topics: Knowledge
When Does Intelligence Peak?
Maybe that’s not even the right question.
Beautiful Minds, Scientific American
Topics: Cognitive Development Intelligence Knowledge Purpose Scott Barry Kaufman Wisdom
Intellectual Humility: The Importance of Knowing You Might Be Wrong
Why it’s so hard to see our own ignorance, and what to do about it.
Vox
Topics: Intellectual Humility Knowledge Learning
Useless Knowledge Begets New Horizons
Fundamental discoveries don’t always have practical uses, but they have soul-saving applications.
The New York Times
Topics: Curiosity Knowledge
Infant’s Persistence
How do you find out what infants do and do not know? Kelsey Lucca, postdoctoral researcher in psychology at the University of Washington, discusses this question.
The Academic Minute, WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Topics: Cognitive Development Grit Knowledge Learning
Does Science Over-Reach?
Josh Landy and Ken Taylor collect their data with Massimo Pugliucci from the CUNY Graduate Center, editor of Science Unlimited?: The Challenges of Scientism.
Philosophy Talk
Topics: Intellectual Humility Knowledge Limits of Science Massimo Pigliucci Values
Physics Needs Philosophy / Philosophy Needs Physics
Philosophy has always played an essential role in the development of science, physics in particular, and is likely to continue to do so.
Topics: Knowledge Quantum Gravity Quantum Mechanics Relativity
Will Science Ever Solve the Mysteries of Consciousness, Free Will and God?
Are consciousness, free will and God insoluble mysteries?
Topics: Consciousness Free Will Knowledge Limits of Science
How Much Can We Know?
The reach of the scientific method is constrained by the limitations of our tools and the intrinsic impenetrability of some of nature’s deepest questions.
Nature
Topics: Knowledge Limits of Science Reality
Out of the Armchair
A growing number of philosophers are conducting experiments to test their arguments. Is this the future for philosophy?
Aeon
Topics: Knowledge Metascience
3Q: Alan Lightman on Science, Religion, and Our Yearning for Absolute Knowledge
Lightman's new book, Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, examines the tensions between belief and knowing.
MIT News
Topics: Belief Knowledge Science & Religion Dialogue Spirituality
Why Too Much Experience Can Backfire
Sometimes expertise gets in the way of making the right call.
Topics: Intellectual Humility Knowledge Learning Success
Knowing What We Know (And What We Don’t)
How can we balance skepticism and dogmatism? John Perry and Ken Taylor are joined by Baron Reed, associate professor of philosophy at Northwestern University and author of “The Long Road to Skepticism.”
Topics: Belief Intellectual Humility Knowledge
The Most Unknown
An epic documentary film that sends nine scientists to extraordinary parts of the world to uncover unexpected answers to some of humanity’s biggest questions. How did life begin? What is time? What is consciousness? How much do we really know?
Motherboard
Topics: Knowledge Wonder
The More We Know, the More Mystery There Is
Physicist Marcelo Gleiser muses over the paradoxes of scientific progress.
Cross-Check, Scientific American
Topics: Knowledge Limits of Science Marcelo Gleiser Metaphysics
A New Goal: Aim to Be Less Wrong
When beginning from the assumption that you are wrong, a criticism may be easier to construe as a helpful pointer, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.
13.7: Cosmos & Culture
Topics: Knowledge Values
The Value of Thought Experiments
Think your way to scientific truth.
The Philosopher’s Zone, ABC Radio National
Topics: Knowledge Learning
Is Science Infinite?
Science will never tell us who we really are, and that is why it will last forever.
Topics: Consciousness Knowledge Limits of Science
Studies Link Intellectual Humility With Openness to Other Viewpoints
Promisingly, early findings suggest that it may be possible to foster intellectual humility relatively easily, as least over the short term.
British Psychological Society Research Digest
Topics: Belief Intellectual Humility Intelligence Knowledge
Special Issue: Information, Matter, and Life
There are aspects of the relationship among information, matter, and life that deserve closer attention, that have a direct bearing on how we understand ourselves and our world — and so shape our moral and social lives.
The New Atlantis
Topics: Information Knowledge Meaning Technology
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