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Agents Under Fire defends a robust notion of intelligent agency and intentionality against eliminative and naturalistic alternatives. Working with a Discovery Institute research grant, philosopher Angus Menuge tries to rescue the traditional conception of selfhood from the attacks of Darwinian psychologists. Following the reductionist logic of Darwinism, evolutionary psychologists attempt to portray the mind as a collection of isolated genes Read More ›

Congratulations to author/philosopher George Weigel, a senior fellow and former president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and an adjunct fellow of Discovery Institute, who has just been accorded the highest award given by the government of Poland. On April 20, in the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Kazimierz Ujazdowski, presented Weigel with the Read More ›

The bioethics committee at St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston, Texas has decreed that Andrea Clarke should die. Indeed, after a closed-door hearing, it ordered all further medical efforts to sustain her life while at St. Luke’s to cease. As a consequence, Clarke’s life support, required because of a heart condition and bleeding on the brain, is to be removed unilaterally Read More ›

THERE IS A PRETENSE in contemporary assisted suicide advocacy that goes something like this: “Aid in dying” (as it is euphemistically called) is merely to be a safety valve, a last resort only available to imminently dying patients for whom nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering. Meanwhile, in the real world, the founder of the Swiss suicide facilitating Read More ›

WIER HARMON: Good evening everybody. My name is Wier Harmon; I’m the Executive Director of Town Hall Seattle, and I’m awfully glad you’re here to join us for tonight’s conversation. If you’re still if looking for seats, there are a few stray singles scattered throughout the center section. And then there are two and three seats available together on the Read More ›

This article, published by the North Country Gazette, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: Award winning author Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute of Seattle, Washington, an attorney and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, notes that “the treatment is apparently being removed because it works, not because it doesn’t—which Read More ›

Why do Mexicans only have one-third the per capita income (on a purchasing power parity basis) of Canadians and only one-fourth that of Americans? The answer is that Mexicans are relatively poor because have been plagued by semidespotic regimes that have ignored the rule of law and often engaged in destructive economic policies. Mexicans have been free of their Spanish Read More ›

In 2003, three days shy of the Fourth of July, I was naturalized as an American citizen in Seattle. With the exception of the day I married my wife, this was the happiest day of my life. It had been a long journey since I first came to the United States, legally, nearly 20 years ago. During this time, I Read More ›