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New Salem University by Bill Curtis “Why does Socrates end the dialogue by talking about a myth of all things? Isn’t that puzzling? Isn’t myth the very antithesis of philosophy?” The professor surveyed the room and the six students it held. Three were ... More »
I remember a time when I was sitting in my chemistry class and learned about electrons. These wondrous little marvels are apparently what all of science and study has boiled down to. The electrons that determine the properties of an atom are, as far as we can ... More »
By Jerry Robbins A Book for Lefties, by Neil Armstrong. When he realized he couldn’t work most of the levers and dials in his spacecraft, Neil vowed to write this book. It encourages all southpaws to stand up for their lefts. Twelve Principles of Impos... More »
By Asoka Mendis I have traveled to numerous exotic places, including the foothills of the Himalayas, the Arctic, and the Antarctic. These places, needless to say, are all on the surface of the earth. As a space scientist I have also fantasized about going into... More »
Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Richard Rorty Review By Dan Geddes The chief target of Rorty’s work is the notion that epistemology is the arbiter of what is rational in Western cultures. He sees this as an outgrowth of Descartes̵... More »
Parables of Kierkegaard Edited by Thomas C. Oden Review By Dan Geddes Editor Thomas C. Oden discovered the idea of compiling Kierkegaard’s parables during a conversation with another scholar. This volume gives Kierkegaard’s parables a wider audience, as fe... More »
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot Review By Dan Geddes Many readers of The Holographic Universe will have doubted religion earlier in their lives, and so may be skeptical about spirituality in general. The Holographic Universe is one of those books th... More »
Claude Roget: Philosopher or Fraud? Imaginary review by Dan Geddes Works Discussed Claude Roget: Montmartre Mountebank by Louis Bloch Order Is Terror by Claude Roget Literature and Vacuum by Claude Roget “Uncommunicative Modalities In Roget’s Anti-T... More »
The Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche’s most sustained critique of morality, exhibits such an original approach to value theory that many readers feel lost in the whirlpool of his ideas, and grapple for some solid ground from which to evaluate him. Surely m... More »