Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in ….

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others..

One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous….

Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microecon….

Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research..

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws..

I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their c….

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that ….

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies..

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism..

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least..

We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social goals (so….

Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, ….

Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes..

The fact is that all the important political philosophers and scientists from the great Aristotle on, with the exception of those of the French Enlig….

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs..

My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, ….

Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, wh….

One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to exp….

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of l….

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control..