Scientific Realism vs. Instrumentalism: Do Quantum Fields Exist, or Are They Just Mathematical Tools?
Physics has always attracted two kinds of minds: those who want to know what the…

Physics has always attracted two kinds of minds: those who want to know what the…

Punk rock gave me a lot of things before philosophy got hold of me. A…

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin spent decades painting copper pots and dead rabbits. Denis Diderot saw something Chardin never named: a painted refutation of Pyrrhonian doubt.

Somewhere inside the three-pound electrochemical universe sitting behind your eyes, something extraordinary is happening —…

A Stoic field journal from the two-day slow boat down the Mekong in Laos — what happens to the mind when movement slows to the pace of water, and you can’t document your way out of stillness.

Few books have been so aggressively misread by the people who hate them — and…