The design argument is one of three main arguments for the existence of God; the others are the ontological argument and the cosmological argument. Unlike the ontological argument, the design argument and the cosmological argument are a posteriori. And whereas the cosmological argument can focus on any present event to get the ball rolling (arguing that it must trace back to a first cause, name...

Most automobile manufacturers and several technology companies are testing automated vehicles (AVs) on public roads. While automation of the driving task is expected to reduce crashes, there no consensus as how safe an AV must be before it can deployed. An should at least average driver, but national crash rates include drunk distracted driving, meaning that crashes rate somewhere between sober...

As Elliott Sober acknowledges in the preface, the title of his latest book Evidence and Evolution is potentially confusing. For his discussion does not present various known empirical facts that support the theory of common ancestry, such as fossil data and genetic and anatomical features of extant species. Rather, it is an epistemological study of scientific inference and the confirmation of h...

Hamilton’s Rule provides conditions for the evolutionary success of a gene. These conditions ensure that the gene is selfish in the sense described by Richard Dawkins (1976). By this very fact, inclusive fitness does not explain why the genome of a successful species consists of genes that predominantly cooperate in promoting the fitness of their carriers. Hamilton’s rule shows that prosocial a...

Jack Elliot, an AIAEE member for 10 years and editor of the Journal since 1992, reflects on the growth of the Association and the emergence of the Journal.