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How Our Intellectual Appetites Make Us Vulnerable to Existential Risks: part two

Christians have a long tradition of discussing human appetites—for corporeal things like food, sex, and comfort, as well as for incorporeal things …

Posted on August 16, 2022June 2, 2023
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Philosophy

Why Should We Bother to Learn?

According to a Pearls Before Swine cartoon, history is memorized only because children are forced to do so. The cartoon also suggests that memorizing takes forever. … Read More ›

Posted on October 29, 2015December 1, 2017
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How to Learn Like Leonardo da Vinci

Thinking it sounded fun, I registered last winter for a college course entitled “Symbolic Logic (MTH 303).” I had expected a Junior-level math course, even … Read More ›

Posted on July 17, 2014November 29, 2017

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