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The Pope
Jeremy Bernstein
The human (and elemental) interactions that led to developing the atomic bomb. Jeremy Bernstein reviews The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Segrè and Hoerlin.
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Successful Science
Merrilee Salmon
Does knowledge gained through the scientific method have a unique claim to truth? Is this the only true path? Merrilee Salmon reviews Scientism: The New Orthodoxy, eds. R. Williams and D. Robinson.
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Reinventing Linguistics – Again
W. Tecumseh Fitch
How to reconcile Noam Chomsky the linguist and philosopher with Chomsky the political critic? In a review of What Kind of Creatures Are We? biologist W. Tecumseh Fitch finds an underlying unity.
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It’s You, Again
Daniel Kleitman
Must there be an infinite number of copies of you, in an infinite number of local universes? Mathematician Daniel Kleitman says no. A review of Max Tegmark’s Our Mathematical Universe.
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Good God!
Luke Barnes
Even an atheist has to believe something. Luke Barnes reviews Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, and his construction of an atheistic worldview.
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Vegetable Rights
Daniel Gelernter
Is human culture in denial of vegetal existence? Daniel Gelernter reviews Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder.
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Mindfulness
George Scialabba
Consider the mind-body problem and the question of consciousness. Will a naturalistic account serve? Thomas Nagel says no. George Scialabba reviews the short but ambitious Mind and Cosmos.
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More Better Meta
Nona Robinson
Empty sets, conspiracies, and indeterminacy. Nona Robinson reviews Numero Zero, the last novel by the late Umberto Eco, connoisseur of secrets.
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Good for Nothing
George Scialabba
Perhaps not the Fifth Horseman of the New Atheism, but still persuasive: George Scialabba reviews Faith Versus Fact by Jerry Coyne, a new contribution to the debates over science versus religion.
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