Forum Scientiarum: Einstein’s Philosophy of Science
This summer from 30 July to 3 August Don Howard, Professor at Notre Dame, will be delivering lectures at a seminar on Einstein’s Philosophy of Science. The seminar is in Germany at the Universität...
View ArticleWord of the Week Wednesday: A Series of Time
Word of the Week: A Series of Time Definition: Time has an actual temporal becoming to it. There is an objective past, present, and future. More about the word: The special theory of relativity (STR)...
View ArticleNew Paper: “Do Multiverse Scenarios Solve the Problem of Fine-Tuning?”
I have a new paper in moderation at arXiv. The two papers below are currently listed there: “Epistemological-Scientific Realism and the Onto-Relationship of Inferentially Justified and...
View ArticleScience and Divine Action in Nature
The Enlightenment restricted knowledge to experience and the phenomenal. Post-Enlightenment thought sought to progress in knowledge while considering the advances the Enlightenment had made. The...
View ArticleThe Big Bang and The Big Crunch
The universe was created 13.73 billion years ago. At about 10-44 seconds after the big bang inflation kicked in and underwent a period of rapid inflation (expansion, this inflation force is thought to...
View ArticleWhich Comes First, Science or Philosophy?
The Pre-Socratics were the first philosophers of science. They were known as the sophos (the wise ones). They were ecliplised by the British and German philosophers of science in the seventeenth...
View ArticleQ&A 15: What, Exactly, IS Gravity?
Question: Hello Max, My name is Chad Gross and I am the director of Truthbomb Apologetics. Brian Auten of Apologetics315 recommended that I email you with a question that I have. My question deals...
View ArticleSo, How Did Einstein Come Up With That Famous Equation?
In 1865 James Clerk Maxwell had unified electricity and magnetism by developing his equations of electromagnetism. It was soon realized that these equations supported wave-like solutions in a region...
View ArticleClassical Electrodynamics and Absolute Simultaneity
Below is the abstract from Ben Nasmith’s paper “Classical Electrodynamics and Absolute Simultaneity”. I’m quite pleased to say that I was able to be an official endorser for Nasmith’s paper to arXiv....
View ArticleWhen Asked if I was Surprised to Find Evidence for a Young Earth
Several years ago I was taking a [required] course that teaches creationism. I have a few comments about the course I’ll keep to myself [as in it shouldn't be in the university] but I think most...
View ArticleKuhn on Scientific Paradigms
Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions and Paradigm Shifts Scientific revolutions are here taken to be those non-cumulative developmental episodes in which an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by...
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