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Shoe-Shifting: To put yourself in their shoes you’ve got to be able to get out of yours
F. Scott Fitzgerald said “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in...
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Empedocles
Empedocles of Aragas is believed to have lived in the fifth century B. C. E. (G. S. Kirk and...
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Toward a Post-Secular Europe? A Review Essay
Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations by Peter Berger, Grace Davie and Effie Fokas, Ashgate, London, 2008;...
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Envisioning a Civilization Recovery Plan
What knowledge contained in what books of science, culture, and civilization would you most want to pass on to...
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Compassion: A Shared Value and A Common Project
When scholars approach a vital human emotion and shared value like compassion, they are confronted with a range of...
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(D)evolving Catholic Perspectives on Creation
When you gotta go, you gotta go. In the men’s room after Michael Behe’s opening talk at a recent...
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The Elder Pliny and the First Book on Natural History
There can be no science without data on everything we see around us: not just plants and animals, rivers...
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Impressions of Italy and the European Union in 2009 – Part I
This past summer, I was in the EU for five weeks, more specifically in Italy. Even in the era...
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Extralegality: A Wishful Thinker’s Attraction to Gangsters
I’m an epistemology professor. My work involves studying how we decide what’s true. For play I have lots of...
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Business, Ethics, and Evolution: The Struggle between Our Higher and Lower Impulses
Some people were intrigued with how Bernard Madoff maintained his smile of contentment amidst the unraveling of his astonishingly...
