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...

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 ...

I got an anonymous email yesterday, from an address I didn't recognize, with a link to a YouTube video called "10 Questions Atheist...

Following hard on the heels of yesterday's guardedly optimistic post about the potential malleability of people's views on such frau...

In today's post, I'm going to allude to two news stories I ran across in the last couple of days that are so upsetting, so completel...