Stephen Hicks

Physicist Lawrence Krauss and I appeared jointly in Boulder, CO, to the discuss “The Anti-Science of God?” We ranged over several sub-issues: What is religion? What is science? Is God meaningless? Are all religions equally unscientific or do some try, even if weakly, not to be? Has the is/ought dichotomy made the problem worse? Related: […]

Auguste Comte coined the term “altruism” and is a founder of sociology. What is altruism, and why does Comte argue for a “Sociocracy”—i.e., the rule of priestly sociologist-kings? Who are the great philosophers and what are their key ideas? From the beginning of philosophy in Greek myths to the influential thinkers of our own time,

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On their Theory of Anything podcast, Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen discuss epistemology with me. One big question we take up: Before doing high-level philosophy of science—logic, math, experiment design, theory-formation—how important is it to have good accounts of base-level cognition—perception, conception, proposition-formation? Another: What are the similarities and differences between Critical Rationalism (launched by