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In Whose Image?
TRAVIS RYAN PICKELL | Last semester, a single, hypothetical, issue haunted all our discussions in my co-taught class...
Jan 4, 2019
The Atomist Age: Lucretius and the Poetry of Science
DAVID CURRELL | Imagine this review beginning with a little game...
Feb 2, 2018
Figuring the Unknown
CLAY GREENE | In 1959, a British novelist and chemist named Charles Percy Snow delivered a memorable lecture at the University of...
Sep 13, 2017
When Science was Literature and Literature was Science
CLIO DOYLE | Science was everywhere in the seventeenth century, especially in literature...
Sep 6, 2017
God on the Brain: Cognitive Science and Natural Theology
KAROLINA PROCHOWNIK | Cognitive science of religion (CSR) is a recent discipline that examines naturally evolved cognitive processes that...
Apr 21, 2017
Science vs. Religion and Other Modern Myths
SAMUEL LONCAR | If god is dead, myth is not...
Oct 6, 2016
How to Be Human in a Machine World
SAMUEL LONCAR | Humans seem to relish the prospect of their own extinction...
Dec 8, 2015
Islam’s Compatibility with Science
ROBERT MORRISON | Islam’s compatibility with science remains a prominent topic in public discourse...
May 26, 2014
Biology, Ethics, and the Persistence of Religion
PHILLIP SHERMAN | Chimpanzees are prone to extreme violence when confronted with a territorial dispute...
Dec 3, 2013
Atheism 3.0? Alain de Botton’s “School of Life” and Transhumanism
MICHAEL BURDETT | On February 23, 2012, in the Sheldonian Theatre at the University of Oxford, two figureheads of Modern Britain debated a topic fit for the location...
Oct 23, 2013
Has the Grasp of Science Outstripped its Reach?
FRANCIS J. CAPONI | Nagel is an atheist and makes it clear that he is speaking of a wholly natural teleology: no designers need apply...
May 5, 2013
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