Tania Lombrozo

Tania Lombrozo appears in the following:

Atheist Shoemaker Loses Faith In U.S. Mail

Monday, April 08, 2013

In late 2012, a "cadre of shoemakers & artists in Berlin, Germany, who make ridiculously comfortable, Bauhaus-inspired shoes" decided to test a hypothesis. They'd noticed that some of their customers in the United States were experiencing delays and other problems receiving their shipments. They began to wonder why. Could ...

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Should All Women Heed Author's Advice To 'Lean In'?

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Sheryl Sandberg's controversial new book on women and leadership, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, currently tops Amazon's best-seller list in "Business Management and Leadership" alongside Decisive (Chip Heath and Dan Heath), StrengthsFinder 2.0 (Tom Rath), Give and Take (Adam Grant),

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The Ironic Success Of Experimental Philosophy

Monday, March 25, 2013

Later this week, hundreds of philosophers will converge near San Francisco's Union Square for the 87th annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association.

Reporters from The San Francisco Chronicle will not be onsite to cover the invited symposia on the epistemology of modality or on ...

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Death By Drone: The Moral Way To Go?

Monday, March 18, 2013

Consider the following hypothetical.

Your government has enlisted a large number of assassins, mercenaries who wield hatchets and knives. They are stationed around the world in strategic locations. Unfortunately, they are a little stupid and clumsy. Because they are stupid, they need to be told exactly where to go and ...

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Is Having A Child A Rational Decision?

Monday, March 11, 2013

Debates about whether it's rational to have children are nothing new. Recent books like David Benatar's Better to Have Never Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence, Bryan Caplan's Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, Christine Overall's Why Have Children: The Ethical Debate, and Jessica Valenti's

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