What makes us different from animals Can some animals think.

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What makes us different from animals Can some animals think

Question everything Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I seek not the answer but to understand the question

Don Marquis

Thought

A corollary If no-one is left at the end of my lecture it will have been a great success

Science and Doubt © How hard it is to be sure of anything – some doubt must always linger

A History of Doubt

Is Seeing Believing?

Doubt II ©

Einstein and the Guy who doesn’t Play Dice ©

Spinoza

Our Big Problem

The Freedom to Doubt and Question

Fruits of Conviction

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe

What have Philosophers ever done for us?

The Foundation of Scientific Philosophy ©