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Peter Godfrey-Smith, a philosopher of biology and mind, has joined the philosophy department as a full-time tenured professor this year after several semesters as a visiting professor. He had been splitting his time between the Australian National University and Harvard.
“He is the leading philosopher of biology of his generation,” Goldfarb said.
The philosopher said that he decided to come to Harvard because it is “the best intellectual environment” compared to Stanford, where “the stereotype of Californian people as more relaxed has some application.”
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted yesterday to revamp the life sciences program and move concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year, capping a month of curricular reform and setting the stage for an uncertain debate on the future of the Core.The extension of the concentration choice deadline...
It is a challenge that the 20th-century philosopher of modern communication theory Marshall McLuhan would comprehend. The Canadian-born writer, who coined the phrase "the medium is the message," was also a devout Catholic. In one conversation recorded by his wife, McLuhan said: "Christ came to demonstrate God's...