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Postings from the interface of science and culture
Sunday, August 07, 2022
The Spectator's review of The Book of Minds: a response
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There is a review of The Book of Minds in The Spectator by philosopher Jane O’Grady. I have some thoughts about it. ...
Saturday, June 04, 2022
What do we mean when we say that science is political?
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In commenting on the commonly voiced view that “science is political”, Stuart Ritchie makes an excellent point: we must ask “And then what?...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
The long shadow of Covid: a reply to Sunetra Gupta
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It’s no surprise that Sunetra Gupta “view[s] the legacy of coronavirus from a different perspective” to me, as she write...
Sunday, August 29, 2021
More on the "politicization of science"
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Biomedical scientist Andreas Bikfalvi has responded to my own responses to Anna Krylov’s article in the Journal of ...
Sunday, May 09, 2021
The problematic themes of Modern Myths
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In her review of my book The Modern Myths in the New York Times Review of Books , Sophie Gee asks why “ post-Enlight...
Monday, March 22, 2021
What we have seen: a year of lockdown
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What we have seen is that global calamity can come in a strange and perplexing form, at the same time apocalyptic and w...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Free will and physics: the next instalment
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I’m sorry that I seem to have forced Jerry Coyne to write about a subject he is avowedly tired of, namely free will. ...
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