Be Careful with Occam’s Razor, You Might Cut Yourself
A biologist-philosopher cautions against banishing from our worldview things that science cannot comprehend
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Meta-Post: Posts on Buddhism and Meditation
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Why We're Still Fighting over Freud
A debate over the relevance of psychoanalysis to brain research highlights science’s lack of progress in understanding the mind...
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In Defense of Disbelief: An Anti-Creed
We should doubt all theories and theologies that claim to solve the problem of who we really are
Meta-Post: Posts on the Mind-Body Problem
Cross-Check columns on consciousness, free will and other mind-related puzzles...
Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics
Philosopher David Albert thinks there might be a “clear and straightforward” way of thinking about quantum phenomena...
Thomas Kuhn Wasn't So Bad
A former student of the influential philosopher defends him against filmmaker Errol Morris’s “character assassination”
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