Siris

To examine any thing wisely, two conditions are requisite: first, a distinct notion of the desirable ends, in the complete accomplishment of...

Depending on whether you date according to the Julian or the Gregorian calendar, Niels Stensen was born in Copenhagen January 1 (Julian) or ...

Contrary to some very false claims circulating in the media recently, the Ethiopian Orthodox are not opening up the Treasury to reveal to ev...

* "The Wild Hunt" weblog had a post a couple of weeks back on the problem of racist misappropriations of pagan symbols ; as the au...

The distinction between human reason and the sagacity of brutes appears to be a perfectly correct one. Yet there are certain instances of ac...

Sean Carroll has recently had a couple of posts up on NOMA, i.e., the idea that science and religion have 'non-overlapping magisteria...

Suppose we take the standard Tversky-Kahneman example of the conjunction fallacy : Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very br...