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Haddad will happily tell you, however, that the interests of the current membership are broad. “They range from writers to visual artists, animators, dancers, humorists,” he said, smiling before adding, “philosophers??as many as possible...
...Steven Pinker were redesigning Harvard’s core curriculum, all undergraduates would have to read three philosophers??Descartes, Locke, Rousseau—and then reject much of what they learned. In The Blank Slate, released last month, MIT’s renowned cognitive psychologist plies the tools of his discipline to dispel pervasive myths about human nature. The book’s title comes from Locke’s famous belief that a baby’s mind is a “blank page” bereft of knowledge about the world. For Pinker, this utterly...
...deal has worked, in a way—we’re rich and peaceful and (arguably) happy. But the hatchet is still there, waiting to be picked up by anyone who isn’t satisfied with the honeyed words of the English philosophers??by Timothy McVeigh and Theodore J. Kaczynski ’62 in the ’90s, by the Black Panthers and the Weathermen in the early ’70s, and by Adolf Hitler in Weimar Germany only seven decades back...