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Students Eschewing Humanities In Favor Of Science

The Times is reporting that students are high-tailing it away from the humanities, scurrying into "STEM" departments. STEM is the educational buzzword of the day---theorists in education surf from fad…

Culture Philosophy

Aesthetics: Peter Kreeftâ€™s Summa Philosophica Part X

Previous installments: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX. Remember our review of Peter Kreeft's Summa Philosophica? We did nine (of ten plus one) chapters, then I laid…

Philosophy Statistics

Scrap Statistics, Begin Anew

You or I might perhaps be excused if we sometimes toyed with solipsism, especially when we reflect on the utter failure of our writings to produce the smallest effect in…

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Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part V

Soul music Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. A mistake followers of Aristotle or St. Thomas Aquinas would not…

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What Is Science? Part I

Science says this, science says that. There is no more loquacious entity these days than science. What is it? Climatologists talk of the science. Physicists compliment by saying a fellow…

Philosophy Statistics

Ten Politically Incorrect So-Called Truths About Human Nature: 6 – 10

See 1 - 5 here. 6. Beautiful people have more daughters And are thus more likely to divorce? And thus less likely to have fewer kids than the ugly people…

Culture Philosophy

We Are All Dogmatic

Huffington Post's Chris Stedman is convinced that dogmatism, which he opposes in all its "forms", is a bad thing, and that to criticize "dogmatic principles and practices is essentially important…

Philosophy

What Do Philosophers Believe? Survey: Part I

What are the answers to The Big Questions? A survey was taken to discover what professional philosophers thought. We'll have fun going through the questions and answers. The results are,…

Tillman Eddy on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 20, 2024
GROAN!! Dad joke… Tillman
PhilH on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 20, 2024
Have to agree with Briggs that cannibals have no taste: I’ve tried eating cannibals and they’re pretty bland.
Tillman Eddy on The Week In Doom: The Distraction Of Truth EditionApril 20, 2024
“ The local truth they believe is that cutting off a little boy's testicles will turn him into a girl.‘…
stoichastic on If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?April 19, 2024
And who could forget the other canard of the century: quantum computing "climate change" giving us the inimitable "Quantum computing…
stoichastic on If You Had To Choose “Ignore Or Believe All Academics On Climate Change”, Which Is Smarter?April 19, 2024
I tried to break the algorithm by invoking canardception, alas, like Rule 42, I failed in my endeavour: string theory…