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Feynman, Hawking, and Herschel all insist that empirical evidence is the sole truth of science. Do they protest too much?

20. November 2020 Philosophy News News

Feynman, Hawking, and Herschel all insist that empirical evidence is the sole truth of science. Do they protest too much? [More]

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Hi, I'm a college freshman taking my first philosophy class. My professor takes

19. November 2020 Philosophy News News

Read another response about Education Education Share Hi, I'm a college freshman taking my first philosophy class. My professor takes points off my essay for grammatical mistakes I made. I disagree with this approach. Isn't the idea the most important, more so for [More]

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Hello, I am a college student from China. My major is material science, but I am

19. November 2020 Philosophy News News

Read another response about Truth Truth Share Hello, I am a college student from China. My major is material science, but I am obsessed with the Golden Mean recently. It is a very old Chinese thought. Its core idea seems to be "Everything is not black or white. It's gray." "Human beings are between heaven and earth and cannot treat all things extreme."The Chinese people are generally atheists because of this kind of thinking. I want to know how overseas masters view this kind of thinking, thank [More]

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Two year postdoc position (2x), philosophy of science

19. November 2020 Philosophy News News

Job List: Europe Name of institution: Warsaw University of Technology Town: Warsaw Country: Poland Job Description: *** apologies for x-posting; please spread widely*** Two full-time postdoc positions (24 months) Philosophy Department, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland APPLICATION DEADLINE: 16 DECEMBER 2020 Topic: Theory Construction and the Empirical Social and Behavioral Sciences (TESBS) Project description: [More]

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Suffering from syphilis, Manet turned to alternative medicine: ergot of rye, mercury, ice showers, hydroelectric baths. Nothing helped

19. November 2020 Philosophy News News

Suffering from syphilis, Manet turned to alternative medicine: ergot of rye, mercury, ice showers, hydroelectric baths. Nothing [More]

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What constituted identity in the Renaissance? According to new books, it was a slippery concept, bounded neither by mind nor body

19. November 2020 Philosophy News News

What constituted identity in the Renaissance? According to new books, it was a slippery concept, bounded neither by mind nor [More]

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Amid extreme deprivation, food and shelter matter, of course. But so do laughter, stories, play, dance, music

18. November 2020 Philosophy News News

Amid extreme deprivation, food and shelter matter, of course. But so do laughter, stories, play, dance, [More]

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Believe Today; Proof Will Be Here Tomorrow

18. November 2020 Philosophy News News

Trump questioned the legitimacy of his own election by advancing the claim that millions of people voted illegally in 2016. Despite being has unable to present any evidence for this claim after four y [More]

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The old-world strangeness of her diction, the stirringly beautiful chest voice: What it means to finally take Dolly Parton seriously

18. November 2020 Philosophy News News

The old-world strangeness of her diction, the stirringly beautiful chest voice: What it means to finally take Dolly Parton [More]

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“The world is a wild and unlikely place: the giraffe, stranger than the griffin, taller than a tall house, does us the incomparable gift of being proof of it”

17. November 2020 Philosophy News News

“The world is a wild and unlikely place: the giraffe, stranger than the griffin, taller than a tall house, does us the incomparable gift of being proof of it” [More]

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