Word: philosophere
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Minsky’s book is laid out with each chapter addressing a different concept. The book is difficult to summarize holistically, because Minsky’s style presents what famed philosopher Douglas R. Hofstadter has called “a stunning collage of staccato images.” Indeed...
Of course, “mental illness” is a notoriously ill-defined ailment and subject to great manipulation by the psychiatric establishment and the state. Thomas S. Szasz, professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York in Syracuse, Michel Foucault, historian and philosopher, and others...
Watching Cutmore-Scott and Holding together, under Birnbaum’s light, able direction, is one of the show’s chief pleasures. Holding—as one of three children who have been taught to intellectualize their feelings away by their philosopher-mother Mrs. Clandon (Ansley D. Rubinstein...
Dawkins is riding the crest of an atheist literary wave. In 2004, The End of Faith, a multipronged indictment by neuroscience grad student Sam Harris, was published (over 400,000 copies in print). Harris has written a 96-page follow-up, Letter to a Christian Nation, which is now No...
The philosopher Charles S. Peirce, Class of 1859, too, would have agreed, though for different reasons. For him, education was not about swallowing little bits and pieces of the world. Knowledge advanced through dialectic, not digestion: “Each mind reflects differently…and…reality doesn?...