I’m sure, gifted with “renown logic” and familiar with Latin expressions like “ad hominem,” Scotty is also keyed into ...

What about Nuremberg and Eichmann?” In the shadow of the Shoah, many death penalty debates in Jewish circles eventually ...

Until religion can solve the problem of evil without resorting to circular belief, it cannot claim victory over reason ...

Is time real, or an illusion? The best answer may be neither: Both physics and philosophy suggest that time is a projection of the mind onto a timeless reality. When you purchase through links on our ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming commonplace, despite statistics showing that only approximately 7% to 13% (depending on size) of companies have incorporated AI into their regular ...

This letter is a response to an Oak Ridger guest column titled, “Pronatalist movement is based on a fantasy.” Regrettably, the referenced column contains serious logic fallacies. These fallacies begin ...

Money is supposed to make life easier. But whether it makes life easier for parents has become a surprisingly contentious question. But these accounts tended to downplay (or ignore) another important ...

It was a Words with Friends chat that first gave Megan Phelps-Roper pause. People have a marked tendency to cling to past investments, whether financial, social, or emotional—even when it becomes ...

Learning that the NYTimes has condemned its kid-news feature to on-line made this Dark Horse particularly stand out for me. I spent a decade editing a weekly kid-written insert for the Denver Post, ...

Four months after Liberation Day, President Trump is poised to declare victory in his trade war. In July, he trumpeted his latest agreement with the E.U. as “the biggest deal ever made.” With the ...

One of the special features of logic-based therapy (LBT), in contrast to other forms of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), is LBT’s matching of “guiding virtues” to “cardinal fallacies.” According to ...