Michael Collins has provided comments on my article on national security intelligence ethics and offered a legal proceduralist conception in opposition to my teleological conception.[1],[2] Collins says that: Just Intelligence Theory treats Intelligence Collection as ancillary to preventing or winning… Read More ›
In “A Tension in the Strong Program: The Relation between the Rational and the Social”, Shahram Shahryari (2021) advances the following thesis: In his Strong Program in the sociology of science, David Bloor blames traditional philosophy of science for adopting… Read More ›
Lee Basham’s recent piece “An Autopsy of the Origins of HIV/AIDS” (2022) has some astonishingly provocative subject matter, so much as to overcome the force of his overall argument. He makes a true point: investigation into real scientific and medical… Read More ›
“Cisgender,” is a term first attributed to German sexologist Volkmar Sigusch and his coining of the term “cis-sexual” in the mid 1990’s (Sigusch 1995). In a 2015 interview (German language, found here) Sigusch explains his reasoning for the coinage, citing… Read More ›
Abstract This article is about “disability” understood as a stand-point of view whose high performative power has influenced the identity of people with various disabilities whom we have called “disabled.” From the philosophy of language, using the tools of semiotics,… Read More ›
In a recent paper in the journal Environmental Epidemiology (Hicks 2022), I examined the statistical-evidential properties of Young’s p-value plot, a method used by the biostatistician S. Stanley Young and various collaborators to critique air pollution epidemiology. I showed that… Read More ›
The following is a commentary that will be published alongside a digital clone that will be on display during the exhibition, ‘You and Robot—What Is Human?’ that will take place at the Japanese National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation,… Read More ›
This continuing exchange (2021a) makes it clear that Neil Levy (2021, 2022b) and I agree on many things—but we do tend to emphasize different issues and framings. Much more than he, I tend to emphasize our agreement. And I get… Read More ›
I. Critical Reassessment of Knowledge Some of the concepts and “facts” that were and are still taught in formal education through schools and universities should be reassessed rigorously because they are intrinsically false. Let us take but a few instances… Read More ›
We live in an era of new discoveries occurring at a tremendous rate. Such a phenomenon has the propensity to create new and constant challenges likely to revolutionize our way of life. The twenty-first century stands out through its complexity… Read More ›