Medicine, neurology, and Sherlock (BBC)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the doctor from Edinburgh, teaches new doctors about the mind.
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01, 2016
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01, 2016
Philosophy of the Future
Computer scientists advocate a liberal education for the future, flexing their epistemological, ontological and ethical muscles on concepts of artificial intelligence.
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01, 2016
Sakharov, Pushkin, and the prison camp
Pushkin brings a desire for spiritual fulfillment between prisoners and their guard.
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01, 2016
Looking Both Ways
Looking toward the past, and the future, on New Year's Day
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12, 2015
Medicine finds philosophy good therapy (David Silbersweig, Washington Post)
A call for integrative therapy, including the liberal arts
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12, 2015
Times old and new: “objective” creative engagement vs. “subjective” inward regression
"As long as poets express merely their puny subjective impressions, they are not worth the name; but as soon as they know how to appropriate and express the world, they are poets. For then they are inexhaustible and can be constantly new, as opposed to a subjective nature, which quickly expresses its meagre inner life [...]
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12, 2015
Do the humanities help us understand the meaning of the moment? (Robert Newman, Raleigh News and Observer)
Humanities skills offer a multifaceted and adaptable toolbox for navigating career shifts and changing workforce demands.
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12, 2015
STEM vs. Humanities in pursuit of truth
Do the humanities sacrifice truth for theory, unlike scientists?
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12, 2015
Society’s True Aristocrats
Every society is based on aristocracy, because this one, the true one, is demanding with regard to itself, and without this demand every society would die. Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1954
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12, 2015
Do scholars hurt the humanities and culture?
We are mistaken when we believe that culture and the humanities are being served by scholarship. The truth is that art and culture do not belong in a university. It cannot be a home for them, because culture proper and scholarship proper are diametrically opposed.... [T]he objects of culture are not analyzable.... Great works of [...]