Here are five papers by USU undergraduates presented at this spring’s LPSC Colloquium. Feel free to post any replies/objections/comments/questions!
alexei-bastidas-sartre-and-marx1
daniel-tate-nietzsche-and-wagner1
jordan-daines-nietzsche-and-dostoevsky1
jeremiah-graves-conceptions-of-faith-kierkegaard-and-mormonism
Congratulations to these students (and others!) for presenting these papers!
“My aim is to reinvent the sacred. I present a new view of a fully natural God and of the sacred, based on a new, emerging scientific worldview. This new worldview reaches further than science itself and invites a new view of God, the sacred, and ourselves—ultimately including our science, art, ethics, politics, and spirituality. My field of research, complexity theory, is leading toward the reintegration of science with the ancient Greek ideal of the good life, well lived. It is not some tortured interpretation of fundamentally lifeless facts that prompts me to say this; the science itself compels it.”
Full article here.
It’s the last week of classes (or so I hear). What are your summer plans? Any goals? Any goofy adventures? Any unbelievably boring prospects? I plan to be reading, writing, reading, writing Nietzsche — woo hoo!!! And riding my bike.
“If I were to start again as an undergraduate, I would major in philosophy,” said Matthew Goldstein, the CUNY chancellor, who majored in mathematics and statistics. “I think that subject is really at the core of just about everything we do. If you study humanities or political systems or sciences in general, philosophy is really the mother ship from which all of these disciplines grow.”
Here is Stanley Fish’s latest blog post, in the New York Times, about “deconstructionism,” and whether it has any political consequences. He thinks it does, since (in my own words) it puts up all sorts of warning flags whenever words are used to describe the truth (while giving a free pass to words about words, or words about words about words…..).
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