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Education: Perhaps the answer is to rethink what we mean by education

Recent events have spawned what has been for me some vitriolic but otherwise meaningless debates about education in the United States. The debates have been vitriolic because the sides involved have dug into positions that are primarily rhetorical in nature and have been meaningless because most of the rhetoric has little to do with how […] Continue reading

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Philosophy: Send in the clones…

I had a far ranging debate last night that, among its several features, touched on clones. They weren’t what that debate was really about, and this post isn’t really what that debate was about. But, it got me thinking about … Continue reading Continue reading

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Philosophy: Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum

I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am. –Rene Descartes. Philosophy: my pursuit of truth through reason along with faith and empiricism. Yes, I consider myself a philosopher. Perhaps that is a conceited self-title, but matters of truth, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Philosophy: Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum

I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am. –Rene Descartes. Philosophy: my pursuit of truth through reason along with faith and empiricism. Yes, I consider myself a philosopher. Perhaps that is a conceited self-title, but matters of truth, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Philosophy: Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum

I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am. –Rene Descartes. Philosophy: my pursuit of truth through reason along with faith and empiricism. Yes, I consider myself a philosopher. Perhaps that is a conceited self-title, but matters of truth, … Continue reading Continue reading

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