Eric R. Scerri (2008) Collected Papers on Philosophy of Chemistry. Imperial College Press, London. ISBN-13 978-1-84816-137-5: ISBN-10 1-84816-137-9: 248 pages. Price: $101 / 56.
Reviewed by: Joseph E. Earley, Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
What has philosophy to do with chemistry? Robert Boyle (1627-1691) a founder of modern chemistry had a low opinion of [...]

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The tea clipper known as the Cutty Sark is symbolic of life on the high seas, empire and a bygone age, but David Bain has brought it to the centre of a new philosophical debate. The Cutty Sark, you see, is being renovated. Damaged, burnt and rotten timbers removed and replaced.
Bains asks, in [...]

Apparently, doctors at 25 UK and US hospitals will study 1500 survivors to see if people with no heartbeat or brain activity can have “out of body” experiences.

Now, does that sound like a worthwhile project on which to spend taxpayers’ money? What’s it going to prove? That the brain/consciousness continues to flicker like the dying [...]

“It doesn’t scare me,” he says, “in fact I rather pity these people, they react in a way that sounds defensive and actually really rather pathetic.”