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This is motivated by a conversation I had last month with a biology graduate student who felt intellectually superior to those in all disciplines outside of the natural sciences because they “rely on philosophy and not science.” Natural science assumes: (1) the existence of a external world that is independent of [ READ MORE ]
From the New York Times: After reviewing the modern demand for religious reasons and worldviews to be bracketed in the process of public decision-making, Fish writes: “If the business of everyday life — commerce, science, medicine, law, agriculture, education, foreign policy, etc. — can be assigned to secular institutions employing [ READ MORE ]
I love going home to Lansing. It always brings me back to reality. It brings me back to the depths of depravity and the heights of redemption. The majority of my time these days is spent, or invested rather, in the ivory tower of academia. At the age of 23, I have been graced to [ READ MORE ]
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Speaking of Devastating the Obvious, here is a new (kinda) and better way to think about something important that goes against the grain of what most Americans think is obvious—namely, morals and ethics. Moral philosophy has a few basic branches (meta-ethics, descriptive ethics, applied ethics, etc.). One of these branches is called normative ethics, which [ READ MORE ]
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