Themed Articles: The Tree of Knowledge

The Limits of Argument

Howard Darmstadter asks why rational debate doesn’t often change minds.
[Issue 142: February/March 2021]

Martin Kusch and Alexander Reutlinger discuss the ways science is criticised.
[Issue 142: February/March 2021]

Dene Bebbington presents a couple of bad but popular arguments.
[Issue 142: February/March 2021]

Benedict O’Connell asks, must reasoning ultimately rest upon mere assumption?
[Issue 142: February/March 2021]

Michael Baumann lists eight essential questions for judging the reliability of information.
[Issue 142: February/March 2021]

Apostolos Syropoulos goes back to BASICs to consider whether the human brain is a computer.
[Issue 142: February/March 2021]