Popular Science


Collection of my brief articles on popular science. Most have also been published in Spanish.
Full list at: https://manuelalfonseca.acta.es/docs/papersd.htm.

Manuel Alfonseca

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Is the increase in life expectancy accelerating?

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Nick Bostrom Some philosophers, such as Nick Bostrom and the transhumanists, have concocted an updated version of Nietzsche’s superman....
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Four ideas by Alvin Plantinga about God and materialism

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Alvin Plantinga Taking advantage of the awarding of the Templeton Prize to the American philosopher Alvin Plantinga, this post will tr...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Is there a universe?

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The Spanish Wikipedia defines the universe thus: The universe is the totality of space and time, all forms of matter, energy and moment...
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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Truth and New-Age syncretism

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“ What is truth? ” asked Pilate. We are still asking. There are now philosophical currents that deny the existence of the truth, or the p...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Another failed prediction

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As you know, I love to point out the mistakes made by those who make future predictions. Since I was little more than a teenager, I have ...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Turgenev and unhappy love

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Alfred L. Kroeber Together with Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin, the American anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber was one of the four gre...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

Ideology, blacklisting and censorship

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In this post I will resort to my own editorial history by means of three anecdotes. As I have published about 50 books with 37 differen...
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