If We Made Life in a Lab, Would We Understand it Differently?
By Rebecca Wilbanks Aeon What is life? For much of the 20th century, this question did not particularly concern biologists. Life is a term for poets, not scientists, argued the […]
Tag Archives: Philosophy
Criminal Justice in a World Without Free Will
By James Flynn Brown Political Review Scientific advancement has often upended long-cherished human beliefs. In the 17th century, the discovery that the Earth was not in fact at the center […]
What Makes a Genius?
By Claudia Kalb National Geographic The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia houses an array of singular medical specimens. On the lower level the fused livers of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and […]
Do We Have Free Will? Do We Need It?
By Stephen Cave The Atlantic For centuries, philosophers and theologians have almost unanimously held that civilization as we know it depends on a widespread belief in free will—and that losing […]
