Progress

Is Philosophy Just Harder Than Science?

尽管科学已经积累了关于世界的巨大知识财富,但哲学还没有为几千年前提出的问题提供结论性的答案。造成这种差异的原因是什么?难道哲学只是比科学更难吗?

Truth and Progress in Philosophy

Students of philosophy might sometimes get frustrated because they don’t get definitive answers to the sorts of questions that philosophers ask. But are these frustrations based on a misconception of the relationship between truth and progress in philosophy?

Will Innovation Kill Us?

Arguably, the single greatest threat to our continued existence on this planet is climate change. And we would not be facing this threat were it not for human ingenuity. After a mere two centuries or so of industrialization, our innovative activity on this planet has produced such a quantity of greenhouse gases that we are perilously close to the tipping point when climate change will accelerate on its own power, and nothing we do anymore will be able to stop it. Provided, that is, we don’t have a global nuclear meltdown first.