Epistemological Poker is a Loser’s Game

I’ll confess to being a little bit dissatisfied both by Helen’s latest screed contra statistics and by Prof. Kenneally’s argument that science improperly understood ignores the qualities of our lived experience . Both have managed to say a lot of true things but neither, in my . . . . Continue Reading »

Chimpanzee Weirdness

Some scientists think we should expand the definition of ‘person’ to include chimps: "As a population of West African chimpanzees in the Ivory Coast that just two decades ago numbered 10,000 and accounted for half of the world’s population dwindles to just a few thousand, . . . . Continue Reading »