Science

What Are The Odds?

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A philosopher’s guide to betting on the Derby   By Steve Humphrey   Last year for the April Derby Issue, I wrote...

The Laws of Attraction

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By Steve Humphrey   Love is mysterious. What draws one person to another? Why does A love B, while C has no...

The Direction of Time

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By Steve Humphrey Illustration by Andrea Hutchinson   We distinguish earlier from later and past from future, but what characterizes the difference?...

Time in Relativity

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By Steve Humphrey Illustrations by Andrea Hutchinson   From the Scholium in Newton’s “Principia Mathematica,” it says “Absolute, true and mathematical time,...

The Myth of Passage

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Theories on the perception of the passage of time   By Steve Humphrey Illustrations by Andrea Hutchinson   Intuitively, we speak of the...

On the Concept of Time

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How the keeping of time was developed throughout history and how to define it   By Steve Humphrey Illustration by Andrea Hutchinson...

On Certainty

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Determining what we can and cannot be certain about regarding coronavirus By Steve Humphrey Illustration by Andrea Hutchinson Except in trivial cases,...

Probability

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How we can – or cannot – predict outcomes By Steve Humphrey Illustration by Andrea Hutchinson The origins of probability theory can...

What’s in a Theory?

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Exploring the Paradoxes of Theory Confirmation By Steve Humphrey Illustration by Andrea Hutchinson Scientists create theories to describe, explain and make predictions...

Epistemology

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Steve Humphrey swan dives into hypotheses By Steve Humphrey Illustration by Andrea Hutchinson Science is the search for patterns and regularities in...

Truth

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In my previous column, we explored the matter of logic versus rhetoric and how we can distinguish the two. Now, let me...

Logic vs. Rhetoric

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For many, the claims made by “scientists” are just part of the cacophony of voices telling us what to think and feel....