Word: dreyfusism
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...Middle Ages, the questions that philosophy asked were determined largely by theology; today major philosophical issues are posed by science. Says Chicago's McKeon: "The new priests come from the lab and hand us the tablet-how do we handle it?" Philosopher Hubert Dreyfus of M.I.T. is wondering about the possibility of creating a computer that would be completely determined by programming but would behave as if it were a free, intelligent agent. "If something that we knew was just a machine could behave intelligently," he muses, "it would tend to suggest that maybe we are just machines." Would...
...Jersey Dreyfus. Then, suddenly Dumont raised the issue of Eugene Genovese, 35, an American-history professor at Rutgers, New Jersey's state university. A short time before, Genovese had stood up at a campus teach-in to protest the war in Viet Nam. "I am a Marxist and a socialist," he declared. "Therefore, I do not fear or regret the impending Viet Cong victory in Viet Nam. I welcome...
...Genovese, and forthwith nailed academic freedom into his platform. At Hughes's request, Rutgers' board of governors conducted an investigation, found that Genovese had done nothing to incur dismissal, and upheld his right to free speech. Nevertheless, the Genovese case turned into the Jersey equivalent of the Dreyfus affair...
...admit mutual-fund management companies to membership-a move that, if it becomes a trend, could cause brokers to go flocking to the regional exchanges in pursuit of their business. There has already been a rush of other mutual fund managers, among them such giants as Lehman Brothers and Dreyfus & Co., to buy Pacific Coast seats...
...Moscow!" During the French Revolution, a minority of priests and bishops welcomed the new republic, while thousands went bitterly into exile out of loyalty to the Bourbon kings. Since then, the "eldest daughter" of Catholicism has been torn periodically by quarrels over such issues as the Dreyfus Affair and separation of church and state in the 19th century, the worker-priest movement and the Algerian war in the 20th...