It’s a mistake to credit corporations with the same capacity for intellectual independence as academics.… Read the rest
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Fleming, Bond, and Popular Culture 
Oct 31st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Who wants to read about hitherto unlit quarters of the human condition all the time? … Read the rest
China Daily on the Need for Philosophers
Oct 31st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In a society geared towards immediate gains, philosophy seems unable to produce tangible benefits.… Read the rest
Soluble Fish in a Sea of Discourse
Oct 31st, 2005 |
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Raymond Tallis on peculiar ideas about humans.… Read the rest
At Least 58 Killed in Delhi Bombings
Oct 30th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Explosions in crowded markets and a bus on the eve of a festival of light.… Read the rest
Kelly Accused of Double Standard on Interviews
Oct 30th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘interviewing…insufficiently objective to form part of the admission process for a state-maintained school’… Read the rest
Communalism in Education Run Mad
Oct 30th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘They have a right to a Jewish education and…the state has a duty to provide an alternative.’… Read the rest
Smug Theist Calls Atheists Smug
Oct 30th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Our culture’s criterion of acceptability is not “Is it right?” but “Does it work?”’… Read the rest
Nick Cohen on Sectarianism in Birmingham
Oct 30th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Our leaders aren’t diminishing the importance of race, but fuelling sectarianism.’… Read the rest
Birmingham Riots Thirty Years in the Making
Oct 30th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Birmingham city council and government funding regimes have fuelled this hostility.… Read the rest
Fuller Transcript
Oct 30th, 2005 1:20 am | By Ophelia BensonMore Fuller. I’ve been reading the transcript (and so has Stewart, see his comments on I Employ Methods). It’s time to share.
… Read the restA. Well, you might say as a philosopher I’m
professionally dissatisfied with all explanations that
claim to be final. And so there is going to be a
special suspicion sort of drawn toward the
taken-for-granted theories in any given discipline.Q. So you’re not saying that intelligent design
is the correct or the better explanation for
biological life?No, I’m not. I’m certainly not. They’re
not – they haven’t developed it enough to really be
in a position to make any kind of definitive judgment
of that kind…I want to see where
intelligent design goes, frankly. I mean,
Transcripts of Steve Fuller’s Testimony
Oct 29th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District transcripts and more. Pdf files.… Read the rest
I Employ Methods
Oct 28th, 2005 9:11 pm | By Ophelia BensonSteve Fuller. I’ve been browsing in some of my books, leafing through indexes, consulting bibliographies. Steve Fuller.
Here is a passage from Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont’s Fashionable Nonsense pp. 97-98:
… Read the restLet us read it as a methodological principle for a sociologist of science who does not himself have the scientific competence to make an independent assessment of whether the experimental/observational data do in fact warrant the conclusions the scientific community has drawn from them. In such a situation, the sociologist will be understandably reluctant to say that ‘the scientific community under study came to conclusion X because X is the way the world really is’ – even if it is in fact the case that X is the way
Iran Defiant Over ‘Slur’
Oct 28th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Blair, more accurately, refers to threats.… Read the rest
NSS Warns Kelly Over Religious School Expansion
Oct 28th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The more religious schools there are, the more children will be separated by religious categories.… Read the rest
First International Congress on Islamic Feminism
Oct 28th, 2005 |
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Islamic Feminism cites misogynistic distortions of the teachings in the Koran. … Read the rest
Press Reaction to Ahmadinejad’s Statement
Oct 28th, 2005 |
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Calls for wiping people off maps tend to raise alarm.… Read the rest
Libby Charged in Plame Case
Oct 28th, 2005 |
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Aide to Dick Cheney resigns after indictment.… Read the rest
Chaos of Religious Hatred Law in Australia
Oct 28th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Even if no prosecutions are brought, the Act will inhibit public debate on issues of great importance.’… Read the rest
Two Thirds Oppose State Aided ‘Faith Schools’
Oct 28th, 2005 |
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Guardian/ICM poll shows 64% agree ‘the government should not be funding faith schools of any kind’.… Read the rest
