Click Here to Read: Identity narrative, group and individual narratives and their role in social stability: A multidisciplinary approach by Andrei Novac,, Christine Zahn and Barton J. Blinder. Group Analysis. June 2021. doi:10.1177/05333164211012529
Narcissuss (1594-96) by Caravaggio. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Metaphysics Saturday 2:30 PM EST 30 April 2022
Physics being the study of the fundamental properties of Nature, as the name implies, metaphysics investigates the nature of Nature, the what-must-therefore-be-the-case of those discoverable physical properties. For centuries, either explicitly or implicitly, metaphysics created the background and organizing principles for scientific research. But as the 20th century progressed there arose a number of challenges to this position.
The epistemic turn laid down by the quantum theory’s Copenhagen interpretation places our knowledge about Nature, in the sense of what we can know about it, above what it is “in itself.” Nearly contemporaneously, the famous “linguistic turn” heralded by the works of Wittgenstein and the ordinary language philosophers, urged “remaining quiet” about Nature beyond the acknowledged limits of what can be said about it. And more recently, on the heels of what has been referred to as the cognitive turn in psychology, philosophers like Richard Rorty focus on the modes of Continue reading Metaphysics at the Helix Center
Click Here to Read: The End of Progressive Intellectual Life: How the foundation-NGO complex quashed innovative thinking and open debate, first on the American right and now on the center left BY Michael LInd on the Tablet website on April 12, 2022.
Ford Foundation Building. Image: Kenlarry. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here top Read: Scientists find fossil of dinosaur ‘killed on day of asteroid strike’ Remains of thescelosaurus in North Dakota believed to date back to extinction of species 66m years ago by Kevin Rawlinson on the Guardian website on Thursday April 7, 2022.
Thescelosaurus neglectus, an hypsilophodont from North America, version with scutes and rib plates, pencil drawing. Image: Nobu Tamura. Public Domain.
