Philosophy

Philosophy

Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.

Sherlock Holmes
Detective fiction reveals how a particular society or time period looks at crime and criminal justice.
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
standard model color
The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.
One theory for catatonia is that it is similar to an animal's “death feint.”
The base rate fallacy may help to explain low reproducibility in various fields of science.
How can the law keep up with new genetic technology?
quantum biology
The spooky world of quantum mechanics might reach out and touch you — by mutating your DNA. Welcome to the weird world of quantum biology.
Robinson v. California helped to established a rehabilitative ideal: addiction should be dealt with as a therapeutic matter.
The weirdness begs for an interpretation.
multiverse
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
parallel universe
Humans who've lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
Suppose that fetuses are persons. Since pregnant people are too, how should conflicts between them be settled?
The observable Universe is 92 billion light-years in diameter. These pictures put just how large that is in perspective.
cgi
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn't mean CGI is always used to good effect.
what does pro-life mean
Regardless of political ideology, one of the few things that many people seem to have in common is a moral hypocrisy that arises from a fundamental lack of self-reflection.
Only 1% of corn grown is the U.S. is the type that people eat.
assholes
We all know assholes. Perhaps, you are one. Now, psychologists are trying to answer one of life's biggest mysteries: What, exactly, makes someone an asshole?