Science and Non-science

Which questions can science help us to answer, and what are its limits?

The foundation of the scientific method is the idea that there is an objective real world, and that we can discover it through rational criticism. But can science tell us how to address the big questions of our time – for example, what should we do about climate change or how we should think about gender identity? In these pages I explore what it means to think scientifically about such questions.

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