Skeptophilia

As someone who considers himself a de facto  atheist -- I'm not certain  there's no God, but the facts as I know them seem to strong...

The word creativity  is strangely hard to define. What makes a work "creative?"  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  states t...

Of all the things I've seen written about artificial intelligence systems lately, I don't think anything has freaked me out quite li...

In Jean-Paul Sartre's short story "The Wall," three men are captured during the Spanish Civil War, and all three are sentenced...

One of the things I pride myself on is honesty. I'm not trying to say I'm some kind of paragon of virtue, but I do try to tell the t...

If we needed any more indication that our moral judgments aren't as solid as we'd like to think, take a look at some research by Jan...

I had a bit of an epiphany this morning. It was when I was reading an article in the news about the fact that Joe Biden has lost support ...

The last thing we need right now is for people to have another reason to lose their trust in scientists. It's a crucial moment.  On th...

In the unit on ethics in my Critical Thinking class, we always discuss a variety of experiments that have been done to elucidate the origins...