Reflections on the Reception of Unconventional Claims in Science
As a sociologist of science I remain outside of the controversies surrounding unconventional claims in science. My commitment is to the judicial process within the…
As a sociologist of science I remain outside of the controversies surrounding unconventional claims in science. My commitment is to the judicial process within the…
Is there a global mind? Could it be detected quantitatively? In an empirical approach to this question, over the last decade a half-dozen researchers have…
Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle! Alice, in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Human beings can speak, and when…
It has surprised me that so many people who are convinced of the universal and objective nature of scientific knowledge work so diligently to…
I used to think of skepticism as a primary intellectual virtue, whose goal was truth. I have changed my mind. I now see it as…
The art of living is second to none. The art of understanding is also important: it should help us not only to comprehend the ways…
In the years ahead we are going to see great change sweeping through our diverse human societies. It will be change not only brought about…
Recent developments in the fields of complexity, self-organising systems and cosmogenesis have revived interest in the anti-reductionist idea of emergence, and this paper will examine…
We sometimes hear the phrase āless is moreā, and we probably know what it means. In fact, less is not more. More is more! However,…
Our global culture seems to be ever seeking new lows. The mass media prefers gossip over news, status updates are replacing intellectual debates and our…