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...leave is relatively rare in the Harvard community. In a clinical setting, and at home, she could be more open. “I wasn’t the only Harvard kid [at McLean], for sure,” she said. On campus, however, “I [felt] like some people want to hide...
...It’s not obvious to me that there’s any role for philosophy in a whole branch of academics, like biology,” McDowell said. “There are some systems that simply don’t use philosophy...
...Crimson business editor, made a quick stop after discovering they shared a love for McFlurries and fries. Bags are packed, permits are collected and fashion company insurance is solicited. The girls are used to this, explains Feliz-Taveras: “It’s, like, all day, every...
Admittedly, it is hard to argue with such a positivist position, particularly when financiers and policymakers are willing and eager to rely on the appearance of mathematical certainty they provide. Certainty is attractive: Investors like companies with steady returns, just like individuals purchase insurance to hedge against the unknown; even marriage, if you will, is a quest for certainty...
Ironically, the challenge to this position is anything but new. It goes back to the German historical school of famed authors like Arnold Toynbee and Joseph A. Schumpeter. As John Maynard Keynes himself wrote in the preface to his masterpiece, “The difficulty lies, not in new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.” Fully determined models, for ash clouds or financial markets, may be resilient, but they are intrinsically incomplete, for they account for neither...