Author: Huenemann

The library is celebrating Open Access week, and is featuring a panel discussion on this question with ethicist Erica Holberg, physicist Charlie Torre, and USU Press Director Michael Spooner. Each will share his or her unique perspective on our right to knowledge and the impact open access has on his or her discipline. The discussion will be held in Library 101 at 4:30 on Wednesday, October 26th.

Come hear Jay Elliott, a fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, tell us how virtue works. His talk is this Thursday, 4 p.m., in Main 203. All are welcome!

We determined last night that, YES, beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder, and, YES, humans do have souls. I’m not entirely sure about this, but it looks like Aristotle is so far the only philosopher consistent with our results!

In a cheerful voice, turned out in a magenta tie and a blue boating blazer with broad white stripes, Tallis informs 60 people gathered in a Kent lecture hall that his talk will demolish two “pillars of unwisdom.” The first, “neuromania,” is the notion that to understand people you must peer into the “intracranial darkness” of their skulls with brain-scanning technology. The second, “Darwinitis,” is the idea that Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory can explain not just the origin of the human species—a claim Tallis enthusiastically accepts—but also the nature of human behavior and institutions.

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Just a reminder: we return to the oracle of Logan Lanes on this Monday, October 17th, at 7 p.m.