Massimo's picks

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 06:17 - Massimo Pigliucci

Interesting links brought to you by philosopher Massimo Pigliucci.

Yours truly kicks Michael Horner's ass during a debate at the University of Alberta on the question of whether we need gods to be moral. (Duh, no.)
eSkeptic on why women have sex. It's the usual plausible yet untestable concoction of evolutionary psychological just-so stories.
Christians complaining about other Christians' infringement on their freedom of speech. How amusing.
On the epistemic limits of evolutionary biology, and how sometimes even philosophers of science can be surprised.
School officials pull the Merriam Webster's dictionary because one parent complains: it contains the term "oral sex."
What's the ontology of numbers?
Dozens end up in the hospital: "holy water" poisoning...
Finally, a sane discussion of the hoopla about the "Altenberg 16" meeting that I organzied two years ago, and an expose` of pseudo-journalist Suzan Mazur.