Skeptical Observations

It has been a while since I have thought about the fallacy of base-rate neglect. I did not even think about it when I was recently talki...

An account of the double-slit experiment by a former professor of mathematical physics is supposed to show the necessity of a paradoxical co...

Stephen Asma argues that, because philosophers have failed to formulate a criterion to distinguish science from pseudo-science, the claims o...

Stephen Jay Gould’s thesis that science and religion are “non-overlapping magisteria” has weaknesses enough when considered solely on the ba...

We typically use the plural noun “probabilities” only when speaking of events that are potentially repeatable, like throws of a pair of dice...

To treat the question whether God exists as a matter of probabilities seems to some people completely natural and to some utterly perverse. ...

The issue of whether the ancient Greeks could have had good evidence of the existence of their gods comes down to the issue of w...

Gary Gutting offers a double-layered agnosticism about the existence of the gods of ancient Greece: we are in no position to say with assu...