Category: Philosophy of Science

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 3, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alexander Hall, Arthur Fine, Bill Wimsatt, David Hull, David Malament, design detection, divorce, doctoral studies, Douglas Axe, Edward Teller, evolution, intelligent design, J. Gresham Machen, Jonathan Wells, mathematics, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), natural theology, Northwestern University, Paul Nelson, Paul Teller, Phillip E. Johnson, philosophy, philosophy of science, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton University, probability, Sisyphus, specification, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Pittsburgh, William Paley, Winston Ewert}

Philosophy, Theology, and an Inference to Design

_{William A. Dembski
October 3, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy of Science

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My dissertation on the logic of conditionals came to seems like the rock of Sisyphus. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
September 23, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __trending, "God of the gaps", abductive inferences, ad hominems, Arkansas, Bruce Gordon, chemistry, contingency, cosmology, creator, dark matter, demarcation problem, evolutionary biologists, existence, forensic scientists, genetic fallacies, geologists, Larry Laudan, necessary being, New Atheists, philosophy of science, red herrings, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, The Telegraph}

“God of the Gaps,” and Other Old Friends: Responding to Critics in The Telegraph

_{Bruce Gordon
September 23, 2026

Cosmology, Philosophy of Science

4}

There are a lot of commenters refuting arguments that Stephen Meyer never made. What he is offering is what philosophers of science call an abductive inference. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 4, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alex Rosenberg, behavior, consciousness, coworkers, David A. Oakley, Duke University, Edward Feser, eliminative materialism, folk psychology, Joe Gough, mental causation, mind-body problem, Newton’s Second Law, Patricia Churchland, Paul Churchland, philosophers, philosophy, souls, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Metzinger, University of Mainz}

Overhyping the Mind-Body Interaction Problem

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 4, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

5}

Eliminative materialism is best seen as a nice try at cementing materialism in a world where it faces mounting serious challenges. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 19, 2026

Categories
Life Sciences
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, animism, Annaka Harris, cabbage, Cambridge University, chauvinism, consciousness, dandelions, Hard Problem, human consciousness, information, lunacy, materialism, Natalie Lawrence, neurons, Paco Calvo, panpsychism, philosophy, Planta Sapiens, plants, ResearchGate, Sam Harris, slime molds, vertebrates}

The Latest: Plants as “Non-Human Persons”

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 19, 2026

Life Sciences, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

5}

The need to see humans as equivalent to animals has now spread to the need to see us as equivalent to plants. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 12, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Adam, Anil Seth, animals, Baruch Spinoza, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, David Chalmers, earth, eliminative materialism, evolution, Genesis, hard problem of consciousness, heavens, humans, inanimate matter, Karl Popper, matters, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, neuroscientists, New York University, Noema, philosophers, soul, theoretical physics, Thomas Kuhn, Tim Bayne}

Prominent Physicist Wishes Away the Hard Problem of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 12, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

5}

Recently Carlo Rovelli fell into an all-too-common trap for creative thinkers. He offered an opinion on a subject outside his discipline. Read More ›

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Date
June 5, 2026

Categories
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adam Frank, astrophysicists, biologists, consciousness, dualism, emergence, Güneş Taylor, Institute for Arts and Ideas, Lisa Feldman Barrett, materialism, Michael Levin, neuroscientists, perspectival view, physicists, religion, spacetime, Stephen Hawking, straightjacket, superstition, third-person view, universe, University of Rochester, Werner Heisenberg, YouTube channels}

Scientists Ask, “Is Materialism Holding Science Back?”

_{Science & Culture
June 5, 2026

Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

3}

Is materialism a straightjacket? The very fact that a respectable conversation is going on around this question tells us that something has changed. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 21, 2026

Categories
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Deity, doubts, evolution, evolutionary process, evolutionists, ideas, intelligent design, interviews, knowledge, Matt Fradd, monotheists, naturalism, Nature, Pints with Aquinas, reality, reason, science, scientific reasoning, Stephen Meyer, The Daily Wire, The Story of Everything, theaters, theism}

Meyer, Fradd: Atheist Evolutionists Reason as if They Were Theists

_{David Klinghoffer
April 21, 2026

Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

2}

Only a loving Deity who endowed us with reason — a highly unnatural gift! — can explain why we are able to think rationally, including about science. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
April 15, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Philosophy of Science
Physics
Tagged
, chemistry, cosmology, God’s Not Dead, gravity, intelligent design, john lennox, Kevin Sorbo, Leonard Mlodinow, Oxford University, philosophy, philosophy of science, physics, showtimes, Singularity, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Grand Design, theaters}

What Grand Design? On Stephen Hawking’s Loophole

_{Terrell Clemmons
April 15, 2026

Cosmology, Philosophy of Science, Physics

4}

In their 2010 book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow set out to answer a big question. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 12, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, atheists, biology, Cambridge, England, information, information theory, intelligent design, James Orr, mathematics, Natural Sciences, natural theology, Nature, philosophy of science, physics, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, Theory of Everything}

Stephen Meyer in Cambridge: Natural Theology or Intelligent Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
March 12, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

2}

Adds James Orr, “You might call it non-natural theology in that your argument around mathematics and information is that it's not naturalistically explicable. Read More ›

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Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin's House of Cards, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, evolutionary theory, Galileo Galilei, John C. Eccles, Karl Popper, Michael Flannery, natural selection, nature, offspring, parents, philosophy of science, purpose, sexual selection, Tom Bethell}

On Natural Selection, Popper’s Posthumous Gift

_{Science & Culture
March 11, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy of Science

2}

If philosopher of science Karl Popper wanted to leave a gift for those who came after to puzzle over and discuss, he couldn’t have chosen more astutely. Read More ›