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• Religion and nanotechnology

  ( Crossposted from Metamagician and the Hellfire Club .) Now <a href=" http://www.eurekalert.org:80/pub_releases/2008-02/uow-rca021108.php">this story </a>is really weird. Apparently, most Americans reject the morality of nanotechnology Read More...
  Posted Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:04 PM by Russell Blackford / 3 Comments

  Tags: reason, future of religion, religious bigotry, science, nanotechnology

• Science, and those pesky "other ways of knowing"

  ( Reposted from Metamagician and the Hellfire Club .) Now and then - much more often than I'd like - I come across a claim to the effect that science is merely "a way of describing the world, among other ways." This bold claim is usually Read More...
  Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:29 PM by Russell Blackford / 0 Comments

  Tags: naturalism, reason, science, philosophy, Thomas Kuhn, philosophy of science

• Why science has to fight an uphill battle

  ( Crossposted from Metamagician and the Hellfire Club .) This important article by Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg (the full version of which has recently been published in Science , 18 May 2007) examines the psychological wellsprings of resistance Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:27 PM by Russell Blackford / 1 Comments

  Tags: reason, evolution, science, psychology, neuroscience