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...like open-heart surgery, the practitioner should be paid. On the other hand, if something is too easy to do, like murder, the practitioner should be jailed. If you failed to follow that logic, do not worry; it just means that you haven’t read enough Kant...
Although she has focused on math as an undergraduate, Sarah’s true passion lies in philosophy; mainly moral philosophy. She took the class Justice, and was amazed by the late night conversations she had with roommates. She identifies strongly with the ideas of Kant. This semester she’s taking a seminar on his political and religious philosophy taught by professor Christine Kosgaard. “She is my hero. All my roommates learned about Kant too this semester.” Next year Sarah will continue her studies in philosophy across the Atlantic at an Oxford...
...while the inarticulately angry lyrics are intoned in almost religious fashion. Again, the link to portrayals of women, or anything very much beyond sinister apocalyptic omens, is vague at best; the song is perhaps more a tribute from Tori’s days in her early metal band Y Kant Tori Read. The album’s closing track is a gender-bending version of Joe Jackson’s “Real Men,” in which the question about “who the real men are” becomes yet more doubtful in Tori?...
Philosophers like Leibniz and Kant hypothesized that the mind innately thinks in such categories as space, time, number, causation and human intentions. Spelke turned this philosophy into experimental science and showed that infants have an abstract understanding of these categories of reality. They know that objects continue to exist even when you don't look at them and that they can't pass through barriers. Other psychologists--some of them her students--have documented when in the first year of life the other basic categories come online. With these scaffolds in place, babies can understand the world as they...
...required to know English, did not understand. An intelligence official says the Peruvian had passed a required test in English, but his "abilities deteriorated as the stress rose." Language fluency is a long-standing CIA problem. On a proficiency scale of 1 (Good morning) to 5 (Let's discuss Kant), case officers with a 2 are often sent into the field--hardly fluent enough to read a newspaper...