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Friday, 16 September 2022

Scientists at War With Scientists: Insults, Politics, and Darwinism

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Lynn Margulis said that Richard Dawkins is “arrogant” and “solipsistic”. Richard Dawkins, in turn, said that Margulis is an “extremely obsti...
Friday, 9 September 2022

Carving Nature at Its Joints: Natural Kinds and Essences

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The philosopher Roger Scruton argued that “we do not create natural kinds simply by our classifications”. Metaphysicians, then, should “sugg...
Monday, 5 September 2022

Ludwig Wittgenstein Embraced Contradictions: Alan Turing Didn’t

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Wittgenstein once argued that “if a contradiction were actually found in arithmetic, then that would only prove that an arithmetic with such...
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