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Jeffrey K. McDonough
Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz's Physics and Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz's Physics and Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz's Physics and Philosophy
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Simple solutions, dangerous realities

Beyond Kuhn and Feyerabend

Why evidence won't change your convictions

Our touching faith in numbers

The myth of pure science

The irrationality of transhumanists

Towards a new Enlightenment

The problem with the Nobel Prize

What is this thing called pseudoscience?

10 questions ignored by philosophy

The universe is neither clockwork nor alive

Thomas Kuhn and why radicals need tradition

Whether lockdowns were successful remains a mystery

The quantum wave function isn't real

Medicine's bad philosophy threatens your health

Bruno Latour: The Delusions of Modernity

Physics can't deal with reality's complexity

Carl Sagan was wrong: ordinary evidence is enough

Science is a kind of magic

The truths in physics are dependent on falsehoods

Reality has no ultimate building blocks

In bed with the enemy: how to fix science

The laws of nature explain very little

The problem with emergence

The divide between art and science is a mistake

Philosophy needs a Renaissance

11 philosophers you don't know about, but should

Hossenfelder vs Goff: Do electrons exist?

The Values Fix

Europe's Philosophical Rivalry