No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another — that, in fact, has never been observed.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.