Physicalism tries to reduce everything to matter. Extended naturalism offers a richer approach that includes mind, meaning, morality, and modality as genuine phenomena.

A total of 3,099 students qualified for the dean's list for the spring 2025 semester, which ended May 9. To qualify for the ...

People who view the world as a savage social jungle are more likely to admire antagonistic leaders, praising their competence ...

DNA analysis is considered the gold standard for identifying victims of mass fatalities. But how does it work?

Scientists are crucial voices in the public debate about wicked problems—societal-scale, high-stakes issues with no clear ...

The Social Sciences Division at UC Santa Cruz is a community of changemakers working to address some of the biggest, most complex social and environmental challenges of our time. We do this through ...

Six departments comprise the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics: chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology and biochemistry, earth and atmospheric sciences and computer science. The college’s ...

In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of ...

Over the last decade, concerns about the spread of misinformation about science and the role of scientific expertise in civic dialogue have grown significantly. A new National Academies report ...

Whereas, in the natural sciences we cannot be certain regarding the true causes, this is not the case with respect to economics. The fact that man acts purposefully implies that causes in the world of ...

Social science and social work programs at UT are for students who want to examine humanity—our history, behavior, environment, and needs—or improve the lives of others.