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...since he arrived at Harvard in 1965. His impact at Harvard has been long and wide-reaching. His positions as a faculty member of the departments of both the Study of Religion and Philosophy demonstrate the breadth of his expertise. His extensive writings on the philosophy of mathematics and logic and on realism and pragmatism are his most noted contributions to academia...
Clearly this goes beyond picking classes. Regardless of the logic involved, decisions of allegiance (which class to take, which group to support, which opinion to have) are largely intuitive, a strange mix of thinking for ourselves and absorbing other thinking we trust. It's innocuous enough on the level of which Lit and Arts B core you eventually take, but the ways in which reputations are acquired become much more serious with more serious consequences...
There are cases all around us of individuals speaking for groups and of groups coming to the consensus of individuals. Consider the stand the E.U. is taking against Austria and the dominos that have fallen since the U.S. ambassador withdrew. I don't mean to hold argumentative, individualist logic on a high plane above consensus. Intuition can be a great help in situations where the facts are dubious...
...other two QR classes, QR 22: "Deductive Logic" and QR 28: "The Magic of Numbers," focus on understanding abstract mathematical principals rather than applications...
...Deductive Logic," for instance, threw together a mix of students who were fulfilling a Core requirement and those seriously interested in the course. The class was once offered by the philosophy department and is still required for philosophy concentrators. Both students and teaching staff noticed the situation...