Attentive readers of this blog may have noticed that those who post comments to my entries often show two interesting and complementary attitudes: a fundamental distrust of (if not downright contempt ...

WE must go back to the time when a certain father and son of Crete stretched their waxen wings and soared boldly into space, to discover any “external representation ” of the sublime attempt of the ...

You may have looked to the nature of the learning objectives in each division. Students in library science gain knowledge about knowledge; that is, a taxonomy of the world’s knowledge; in business, ...

This is the first in a new series of articles on “Science and Philosophy”. The School of Athens Source: Raphael (1483–1520) Public Domain “A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background ...

This Certificate provides philosophical insight into questions concerning the methodology and practice of science. Designed for students who are already majoring or minoring in a science field such as ...

A classic scene from the 1978 comedy “Animal House” finds student Larry “Pinto" Kroger and his friends smoking cannabis with their pot-smoking English professor, Dave Jennings, played by Donald ...

Host Ira Flatow will be joined by award-winning physicist Dr. Sean M. Carroll to discuss his book, “The Biggest Ideas in the ...

A single site was occupied over more than 300 millennia, possibly representing where our ancestors honed their ...