Science & Technology
Philosophy, Science & Technology
Altruism: The Morality of Suffering and Death (Exhibit 347R: Organ Donation)
Craig Biddle June 13, 2006
The widespread acceptance of altruism (the fallacious notion that being moral consists in self-sacrificially serving others) causes continuous human suffering and death. Yet another example of this fact is illustrated in a recent article by Dr. Sally Satel (a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute). Because of the widespread…
Philosophy, Science & Technology
Heroes at Harvard
Craig Biddle June 7, 2006
While Bush and company scheme to provide the America-hating Iranian theocracy with nuclear technology, some people are thinking rationally and promoting human life. From the Boston Globe: Harvard scientists announced yesterday that they are beginning an ambitious attempt to create the world's first cloned human embryonic stem cells, bringing the…
Science & Technology
The 19th-Century Atomic War
David Harriman May 20, 2006
Demonstrates the power of philosophy in the field of physics by presenting the 19th-century experimental evidence in support of the atomic theory, and by showing how 19th-century physicists—in the grips of post-Kantian philosophy—belligerently dismissed the evidence and steadfastly denied the existence of atoms.
History, Philosophy, Science & Technology
Enlightenment Science and Its Fall
David Harriman February 20, 2006
Examines the profound philosophical history surrounding the rise and fall of reason as the recognized method of scientific inquiry in the 18th and 19th centuries.