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Jimena Canales
Historian of science PhD (Harvard), expert in 19th and 20th century history of the physical sciences, and author of The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time and more recently Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science.
Historian of science PhD (Harvard), expert in 19th and 20th century history of the physical sciences, and author of The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time and more recently Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science.
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The Limits of Logic
Should we embrace the irrational?
What We Cannot Know
What about the universe is left to discover?
The New Enlightenment
Can we reclaim objectivity after relativism?
The Laws of the Universe
Are the laws of nature just human constructs?
Hawking vs. Philosophy
Has science killed philosophy?
Post-Truth and Postmodernism
Is truth just a construct?
After the End of Truth
Is there such a thing as objective truth?
How To Spot Pseudoscience
Separating Fact From Fiction | Massimo Pigliucci
Down the Rabbit Hole
Confronting the limits of perception.
Cause and the Universe
The many-worlds of quantum physics
Beyond Quantum
Is quantum physics wrong? | Gerard 't Hooft
The Good, the Bad and the Unknown
Is morality independent of outcome?
After the End of Evidence
Massimo Pigliucci on empiricism's end-date
The Limits of Science
Truth and the boundaries of knowledge
Decolonising Philosophy
Do we need to wake up to western prejudice?
After Post-Truth
How do we navigate a world where truth is tribal?
I Am Not A Brain
Markus Gabriel | 'The mind' is a vague concept
Truth and the Universe
What are the limits of science?
Explaining the Inexplicable
Is explanation an illusion?
The Reality of Feeling
Reason and Emotion
The Prejudice of Facts
Are there no facts, only interpretations?
Uncovering the Unknown
Does science uncover the truth?
Beyond Knowledge
Is truth an illusion?
Ultimate Proof
Is evidence an illusion?
This is Our Church
Science as religion
The Science Delusion
Rupert Sheldrake on the blind spots of science
Truth, Error & Adventure
Science, Sex and Subjectivity
Is there a feminist way of doing science?
The Elegant Truth
Angela Breitenbach investigates elegance
Poetic Theories
Can scientists learn from poets?
Revolutions of Knowledge
The future of physics
The Eureka Moment
Are mavericks the real innovators in science?
The Origin of Knowledge
Science, Magic and the Inexplicable
After the Last Magician
Blinded by the Light
Metaphors of truth and reality
Everything We Know Is Wrong
Can science alone uncover the truth?
Science… Fiction?
The future of science
Facts and Fantasy
Are facts a fiction?
The Arc of Life: Roger Penrose
A biography of quantum gravity's founding father
Leonardo's Vision
What can art teach science?
The Origin of Everything
Much ado about nothing
Knowledge and Power
Why science is not enough
The Persecution of Heretics
How inconvenient science gets shut down
Alchemy, Anarchy, and Science
Is science the defining triumph of modernity?
Everything Explained
How science holds all answers
The Tyranny of Evidence
Why the absence of proof is not enough
The End of Theory
The rise of big data
The Comedy of Errors
Scientific errors and new adventures
Being Certain
Are convictions dangerous?
Saving Science
More Articles
Don't believe the dark matter hype
Hints of a new fundamental force
Is Einstein still right?
The Philosophical Problems of Cosmology
Physics needs an aesthetic revolution
Escaping cosmology’s failing paradigm
Physics forgets we are part of reality
We know how time will end, but not how it started
Reality is just a quantum wave function
Rewriting the history of the Universe
The Beauty of Experiments Matters
The many meanings of Schrödinger's cat
Einstein and why the block universe is a mistake
The most complex thing in the universe
The new threat to the Standard Model
Symmetry is a Guide to Reality
We still don't understand the measurement problem
The Delusions of Cosmology
The multiverse under fire
Lee Smolin: the laws of the universe are changing
Dark Matter Doesn't Exist
The future is radically open
Black holes could challenge Relativity
Consciousness is irrelevant to Quantum Mechanics
Time is the increase of order, not disorder
Quantum mechanics and our part in creating reality
Quantum Theory and Common Sense: It's Complicated
The Big Bang didn't happen
James Webb images were made to look beautiful
Physics alone can't answer the big questions