Messier 92 in the Hercules constellation.
I came across a wonderful piece in the June 10, 2014 issue of Scientific American, “The Logic and Beauty of Cosmological Natural Selection” by Lawrence Rifkin MD. Continue reading “The Logic and Beauty of Cosmological Natural Selection”
Steve Neumann wrote a provocative piece in the June 7, 2010 issue of Salon magazine entitled: “The one thing Neil deGrasse Tyson got wrong.” Continue reading On “The one thing Neil deGrasse Tyson got wrong”
Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980) was one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century and a scholar of philosophy, psychology, and biology. Continue reading Jean Piaget: The Insights and Illusions of Philosophy
In a column today describing his new book, Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
The Universe represented as multiple disk-shaped slices across time.
We have seen that science is a more dynamic and useful problem solver than philosophy and that, in our view, philosophical questions eventually are replaced by scientific answers. Continue reading Science As Wisdom