The Tree in the Road
Can a tree block the path of progress?
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05, 2018
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05, 2018
Purpose and passion: innovating humanities research at Duke University
A new grant at Duke aims at innovating how the humanities are taught and understood.
27
04, 2018
A Fair Exchange: A Dialogue about the Value of Goods
How we may value goods without fully knowing their price.
17
04, 2018
Building Knowledge in the Renaissance: Humanist Constructs and Conversations
How did Renaissance humanities build knowledge in ways that still have meaning today? An upcoming talk and discussion at Syracuse University.
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03, 2018
Squaring the circle with the humanities (Linus Devadoss, Jewish World Review)
How complexity is part of the humanities' calculus.
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01, 2018
Healthcare, healing, and Heidegger (Casey Rentmeester, Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy)
Philosophy can guide us to better healthcare.
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12, 2017
Meditation on the brain (Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer, Atlantic)
How meditation alters the way the brain functions.
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12, 2017
Tech and the divided world (Berkeley Lovelace, Jr., CNBC)
How technology creates a house divided in the name of communication.
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11, 2017
Science meets mythology
Two formative thinkers of the 20th-century consider the force of instinctual aggression.
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10, 2017
Doubting wisely to achieve soundness of mind and body
Why doubt can lead to self-assurance and independence of judgement, which is manifest in one's outward demeanor.