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Articles in Philosophy & Religion tagged with Science and Technology

Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.

David J. Chalmers

In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine. 

Daniel Williams

Martha Nussbaum on her new book—and why a full development of our humanity requires developing our capacities to care for animals.

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Martha C. Nussbaum

Despite debates about scientific certainty, we do not need 100 percent consensus on a scientific claim to accept it as true. 

Jana Bacevic, Peter Vickers

How science works.

Philip Kitcher

Building public trust requires far more than the conveyance of facts and instruction in scientific thinking.

Silvia Ivani, Catarina Dutilh Novaes

Tinder and OkCupid should drop the gender binary. Doing so would help all users—queer and straight alike.

M. Andler

The more someone knows about us, the more they can influence us. We can wield democratic power only if our privacy is protected.

Carissa Véliz

For the sake of both science and action in the COVID-19 pandemic, we need collaboration among specialists, not sects.

Marc Lipsitch

COVID-19 has revealed a contest between two competing philosophies of scientific knowledge. To manage the crisis, we must draw on both.

Jonathan Fuller

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