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Stephen Hicks discusses the Enlightenment vision of the eighteenth-century. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course.
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Stephen Hicks discusses post-modernism’s philosophical themes in contrast to those of pre-modernism and modernism. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course.
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Stephen Hicks introduces postmodern philosophy by contrasting its themes to modernism and pre-modernism . This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course.
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Stephen Hicks contrasts modernism’s and pre-modernism’s philosophical themes. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course.
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Cholera, London, 1854.
Maps, math, reason, and persistence.
Steven Johnson’s TED talk on the outbreak and John Snow’s wonderful persistence in discovering the cause:
My earlier post on the heroic John Snow: Two cautionary tales about cholera, the plague, and politics.
Gar Reynolds of Presentation Zen comments on Johnson’s presentation here.
In the final section of Part 13 of his Philosophy of Education course, Professor Hicks discusses the Marxist view of education under socialism.
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From the Department of Collegial Zingers, here is W. K. Clifford on an intellectual acquaintance:
“He is writing a book on metaphysics, and is really cut out for it; the clearness with which he thinks he understands things and his total inability to express what little he knows will make his fortune as a philosopher.”
(Quoted in Brand Blanshard’s On Philosophical Style, Manchester University Press, 1954, p. 28; a more recent edition is here).
Mathematician Clifford (1845-1879) was also the author of the important “The Ethics of Belief,” in which he argues that “it is wrong always, everywhere, and for any one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
… is forthcoming in August and is now available for pre-order at Amazon. It will be published in both hardcover and Kindle formats. The image is a gray-scale version of the cover.
The book version is based on the script of the 2006 documentary and is now complete with footnotes, index, bibliography, appendices, and other documentation.
The 2006 documentary is available on Netflix and in DVD format at Amazon.
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