- Re'em Segev (HUJ): Justification Under Uncertainty.
- Daniel Whiting (Southampton): Is Meaning Fraught with Ought? and Should I Believe the Truth?
- Kate Manne (Harvard): How Desires Might Matter: The Veto Power View.
- A review of Against Moral Responsibility by Bruce N. Waller.
- From Quadrant, James Franklin on the lethal philosophy of Peter Singer.
- Eric Schliesser on Zizek and Kant on philosophical taboos (or: on the demise of philosophical history).
- From 3:AM, an interview with Simon Blackburn, a groovy humanist philosopher who sticks it to the Pope and thinks respect can’t be taken for granted; an interview with Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, the de Chirico mannequin of philosophy; and an interview with Huw Price, an ice cool pragmatist philosopher with global expressivist deflationary thoughts that he writes about in his many books.
- From Homiletic and Pastoral Review, John Young on the value of philosophy: True philosophy throws light on all other forms of knowledge, revealing their relation to each other — with philosophy underpinning them all.
- Spinoza in Shtreimels: A professor and three Hasidim walk into a bar to study philosophy — true story.
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- Ngaire Naffine (Adelaide): How Religion Constrains Law and the Idea of Choice.
- Stefan Huber (Bern) and Odilo W. Huber (Fribourg): The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS).
- How “god” evolved: Whilst we do have a decent understanding of when religious ideas arose, the hows and whys of their appearance are still unknown (and more).
- From Crisis, is Man by nature in relation to the Infinite?
- Defending religious liberty: An interview with Eric Metaxas.
- Ariel Sabar has the inside story of a controversial new text about Jesus, a 1,600-year-old text fragment that suggests that some early Christians believed Jesus was married.
- Colleen Murphy reviews The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age by Martha Nussbaum.
- Before becoming Pope, Benedict XVI once dreamed he would become the archivist and librarian at the Vatican.
- Kristen O’Neal on when the Bible bets boring: How to uncover new life in the old story.
- A review of Global and Local Televangelism.
- Why should Christians read literature? Michael Travers investigates.
- Matthew B. O’Brien reviews Roger Scruton’s The Face of God.
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- From Ars Technica, most of what you read was wrong: John Timmer on how press releases rewrote scientific history.
- Scientists are often responsible for “spin” of their results, research finds.
- Bradly Kneisel on the evolution of scientific knowledge.
- What would scientists learn if they could run studies that lasted for hundreds or thousands of years or more?
- Leslie Horn on 9 scientific breakthroughs that happened totally by accident.
- Neanderthal sex and lesbian albatrosses: Michael Brooks on the perils of populist science.
- Evolution and the complexity principle: Nicholas Beale and Brian Josephson on how science advances by deeper mathematical and conceptual understanding.
- From THES, a review of Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject by Helene Mialet; despite being the father of modern computing, Alan Turing's greatest impact on contemporary science may stem from his insights into altogether more complex hardware, argues Ray Dolan: the human brain; and a review of Is American Science in Decline? by Yu Xie and Alexandra A. Killewald.
- Is a science Ph.D. a waste of time? Don’t feel too sorry for graduate students — it’s worth it.
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