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Rationally Speaking


A monthly e-column by
Massimo Pigliucci

 


This month's column:

N. 35, April 2003, "Whence animal rights?"

Previous Columns
N. 34, March 2003, "America, Europe, and the rest of the world"
N. 33, February 2003, "Gays, in the military and outside of it"
N. 32, January 2003, "Human instincts and virtue ethics"
N. 31, December 2002, "What do you mean, 'rationally speaking'?"
N. 30, November 2002, "Is the U.S. the ultimate rogue nation?"
N. 29, October 2002, "On Intuition"
N. 28, September 2002, "Why bother? Why being liberal is not a lost cause"
N. 27, August 2002, "Is God in your brain?"
N. 26, July 2002, "Economic vs. Social health: it's not the economy, stupid!"
N. 25, June 2002, "Ecology vs. Ecophily: Is it good to lie for the environment?"
N. 24, May 2002, "The meaning of life (sort of...)"
N. 23, April 2002, "Those who understand Bin Laden"
N. 22, March 2002: "Darwin who?"
N. 21, February 2002: "Is philosophy useless?"
N. 20, January 2002: "Mr. Bayes and the true nature of scientific hypotheses"
N. 19, December 2001: "The great unicorn debate"
N. 17-18, November 2001: "Beer and circus in American education" (Part I and Part II)
N. 16, October 2001: "Heart disease and the myth of individual responsibility"
N. 15, 15 September 2001: "Of terror and insanity" (special edition)
N. 14, September 2001: "The dark side of philosophy"
N. 13, August 2001: "Frankenfoods vs. the neo-Luddites"
N. 12, July 2001: "The Wedge: what happens when science is taken over by ideology?"
N. 11, June 2001: "God on the highway"
N. 10, May 2001: "The many faces of anti-intellectualism"
N. 9, April 2001: "Red or Blue? What kind of life would you choose?"
N. 8, March 2001: "Game Theory, Rational Egoism and the Evolution of Fairness"
N. 7, February 2001: "The Greatest Democracy in the World and the Unfairness of American Elections"
N. 6, January 2001: "Split-brains, paradigm shifts, and why it is so difficult to be a skeptic"
N. 5, December 2000: "Intelligent Design - the Modern Argument"
N. 4, November 2000: "Intelligent Design - the Classical Argument"
N. 3, October 2000: "Whence Natural Rights? - A Dialogue"
N. 2, September 2000: "The Place of Science"
N. 1, August 2000: "The Rationalistic Fallacy"