Word: philosophere
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Scientists like Straka are puzzled because above all else, they value simplicity. Gyres of wind, they believe, must be subject to Ockham's razor, a principle first stated by 14th century philosopher William of Ockham. According to this principle, the theories most likely to prove true are those shorn of...
Perhaps John Dewey, the greatest American "philosopher of democracy," described a deliberative style of politics best when he insisted that "Majority rule, just as majority rule, is as foolish as its critics charge it with being...The means by which a majority comes to be a majority is the more...
Tune in. it's Sunday afternoon, St. Patrick's Day, and traditional Celtic music is wafting through the air outside a Benedict Canyon ranch home high above Beverly Hills. Inside, musicians are serenading an Irish philosopher as he lies dying in bed among linens that depict cartoon rocket ships zooming...
OLIVER STONE was told that his film Nixon had won no Oscars by the Zapatistas in Reality, Mexico. Stone had been invited there by Subcomandante MARCOS, the Indian rebel group's white middle-class leader, who complimented Stone on his war films and Natural Born Killers, which Marcos had seen...
When Chalmers says "God," he doesn't mean--you know--God. He's speaking as a philosopher, using the term as a proxy for whoever, whatever (if anyone, anything) is responsible for the nature of the universe. Still, though he isn't personally inclined to religious speculation, he can see...