Science & the Big Questions

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

Adventures of the Mind

The dynamic between scientists and the public is definitely becoming antagonistic. We are wary, distrustful, even fearful of the other. The only way out of this situation is still the same as it has always been — empathy.

Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement

Topics: Empathy Knowledge Limits of Science

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

Will Science Ever Solve the Mysteries of Consciousness, Free Will and God?

Are consciousness, free will and God insoluble mysteries?

Scientific American

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

Cosmic Thinker Worries About Ends of Science and Humanity

Cosmologist Martin Rees holds forth on multiverses, biothreats, AI, utopia, God, and “posthuman” science.

Cross-Check, Scientific American

Topics: Limits of Science Martin Rees Multiverse Technology

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

Is Science Infinite?

Science will never tell us who we really are, and that is why it will last forever.

Cross-Check, Scientific American

Topics: Consciousness Knowledge Limits of Science

Black Holes Are Simpler Than Forests and Science Has Its Limits

Some insights might have to await a post-human intelligence.

Aeon

Topics: Complexity Knowledge Limits of Science Martin Rees Reductionism

Can Science Explain The Human Mind?

Science will one day explain visual perception and memory loss. But will it also explain romantic love and morality? Tania Lombrozo considers people’s beliefs about what science can and can’t explain.

13.7: Cosmos & Culture

Topics: Limits of Science

The Grandeur and Limits of Science

A passionate translator of the beauty and relevance of scientific questions, Margaret Wertheim is also wise about the limits of science to tell the whole story of the human self.

On Being

Topics: Determinism Krista Tippett Limits of Science Reductionism

Is There a Limit to Human Knowledge?

Our understanding of some physical concepts that seek to explain our universe — dark matter and dark energy, quantum gravity, supersymmetry, and the cosmological constant — remain unresolved.

The New York Academy of Sciences

Topics: Knowledge Limits of Science Universe