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The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care

As Cass writes in her report, “The toxicity of the debate is exceptional.” She continues, “There are few other areas of health care where professionals are so afraid to openly discuss their views, ... read more

The most anti-science belief you can hold is that science is a religion

When your congregation zealously overestimates the epistemological functionality of empiricism in the work of logical positivism, you trap the conversation of science and consciousness in your ... read more

Student Files $4.32M Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Antioch University for Retaliation Against DEI Policy Criticism

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide. Sign up today ... read more

Wired for the Ultimate Reality: The Neuropsychology of Religious Experience

In The Mystical Mind, we explore the concept of neurotheology as a way to help better answer the epistemological question raised above — is AUB or baseline reality more real? It might ultimately ... read more

Second Thoughts and the Epistemological Enterprise

The essays draw extensively on work in social psychology to illuminate traditional epistemological issues: in contrast with traditional Cartesian approaches to these issues, Kornblith engages with ... read more

Biden Didn’t Close the Gun-Show Loophole—but Republicans Are Still Mad

It’s fairer to say that the president took steps to shrink it, rather than abolish it entirely. But even that put John Cornyn’s knickers in a twist. read more

Epistemological Vertigo in the Age of AI

I find myself marveling at the complexity and sophistication of these systems while also grappling with a sense of epistemological vertigo. How can we truly know or understand the inner ... read more

How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy

Zachary Yost reviewed John Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato's recent book How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy. While the book is an excellent ... read more

Exploring Neurospirituality with Michael Ferguson

To Michael Ferguson, contemplating spirituality in both the chapel and the laboratory makes his experience of religion more rich. read more

Tayo Adesina’s Global Professorship Award: A recognition of brilliance

The epistemological development of Africa, as well as the demystification of contextual conceptions in knowledge perception of its culture, traditions, and social dynamics, have been subjects of ... read more

Carolina Jiménez: ‘Nayib Bukele is an aspiring authoritarian on steroids’

Born in Venezuela, she is the first Latin American woman to head the Washington-based human rights advocacy group WOLA. In this interview, she talks about democratic backsliding in the region ... read more

Gen Z's exploration of alternative search methods

As the reliance on Google and Bing wanes, a new chapter unfolds, marked by the ascendancy of social platforms and generative AI as the preferred methods for information retrieval, particularly among ... read more