Paul Dicken

Paul Dicken received a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from Cambridge. He is the author of A Critical Introduction to Scientific Realism (Bloomsbury) and Getting Science Wrong (Bloomsbury). He also writes short fiction.

The World Is a Strange Madhouse: 100 Years of Relativity

Paul Dicken marks the centenary of “The Meaning of Relativity,” Einstein’s attempt to explain his runaway theory and correct its “mad” cultural appropriations....

PAUL DICKEN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The Computer Says … What?

Reviewing “Making AI Intelligible,” Paul Dicken concludes it might be easier “to build a human that can talk to a computer, rather than the other way around.”...

PAUL DICKEN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Seeing Time: Einstein’s Theory of Relativity for Beginners

A charming review of a charmingly quirky art-science book about simultaneity (how to see it) and Einstein’s theory of special relativity....

PAUL DICKEN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY