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- Are Developmental Mistakes Essential to Evolution? https://www.bigquestionsonline.com/2016/07/28/are-developmental-mistakes-essential-evolution/ 4 comments
- Neuroscientist Patrick Haggard claims to be able to measure something like free will — “a bona fide neural-cognitive process of volition.” https://www.bigquestionsonline.com/2017/09/21/can-neuroscientists-measure-free-will/ 106 comments philosophy
- "Can Machines Become Moral?" Don Howard explores some issues related to AI. https://www.bigquestionsonline.com/2016/10/23/can-machines-become-moral/ 16 comments philosophy
- Alfred Mele: What Are the Implications of the Free Will Debate for Individuals and Society? https://www.bigquestionsonline.com/content/what-are-implications-free-will-debate-individuals-and-society 3 comments philosophy
- What Does Our Understanding of Time Suggest About the Nature of Reality? https://www.bigquestionsonline.com/content/what-does-our-understanding-time-suggest-about-nature-reality 4 comments science
- Is Information the Basis of Reality? http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/content/information-basis-reality 9 comments philosophy
- Does contemporary neuroscience support or challenge the reality of free will? http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/content/does-contemporary-neuroscience-support-or-challenge-reality-free-will 16 comments philosophy
- The biggest big question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/columns/michael-shermer/the-biggest-big-question-of-all 9 comments philosophy
- The Return of Virtue Ethics http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/columns/mark-vernon/the-return-of-virtue-ethics 5 comments philosophy
- When Einstein learned of the death of his old physicist friend Michele Besso, he wrote the Besso family: “He has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn illusion.” http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/columns/michael-shermer/einstein%E2%80%99s-god 133 comments science
- Stephen Hawking's radical philosophy of science http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/columns/michael-shermer/stephen-hawking%E2%80%99s-radical-philosophy-of-science 22 comments philosophy
- Einstein’s God - He leaned towards the agnostic. “I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind” http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/columns/michael-shermer/einstein%E2%80%99s-god 13 comments worldnews
- Pi in the Sky http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/columns/mark-vernon/pi-in-the-sky 3 comments math
- Every inquiry into first principles, original causes and fundamental laws, will at some stage come up against an unanswerable question: what makes those first principles true or those fundamental laws valid? And the answer is that there is no answer... http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/columns/roger-scruton/effing-the-ineffable 27 comments philosophy
- The Unwisdom of Crowds: Do group dynamics undermine moral thought? http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/features/the-unwisdom-of-crowds 5 comments philosophy
- American men and women now in their 20s aren’t known for their warm embrace of authority. For a generation that grew up on the Internet, a bureaucratic, top-down method of instruction is a non-starter.... http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/columns/christine-whelan/doing-good-and-doing-well 3 comments politics
- How Chinese philosophy helped me live with my son’s special needs. http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/features/the-tao-of-aidan 6 comments philosophy