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The limits of science and the freedom to make moral choices

October 10, 2021 John Paul Meenan 28

If there is one thing that is omnipresent in empirical research, it is doubt. This line has always stuck with me, from a methodology textbook I studied years ago. We may rephrase this in a […]

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Revisiting and understanding the “Galileo Affair”

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“The Galileo Affair needed to be looked at again,” says Dom Paschal Scotti, “because it is one the great events, climactic events even, in European […]

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