Episode 37 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Why is Thomas Kuhn so frequently cited by postmodernists and other skeptics? Kuhn was professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a classic in the history and philosophy of science. Still relevant to our philosophical and […]
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So far, these questions (and comments) have been posted. I’ll be taking them up approximately in this order tonight at thinkspot: 1. To me the greatest problem in determining whether God exists or not is in determine what is God. Some believe God is perfect and infinite. Some believe God is not perfect and not
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For your questions about my two May lectures on the arguments for and against God — or other philosophical questions — join me today, May 25th at 7 PM CT at thinkspot. Registration here: https://thinkspot.com/event_signup?event=8LuJZe
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TEACHER FAILS ENTIRE CLASS: An economics professor said that she had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich. Socialism is a great equalizer. The professor then said, “Okay, we
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Excellent essay by Professor C. Bradley Thompson diagnosing prominent strains of the weird left and the sometimes-weirder right, both deeply anti-liberal, anti-Enlightenment, and anti-American-founding. Link. the principles and institutions of the American Founding are now under assault from the nattering nabobs of both the progressive Left and the reactionary Right. These two ideological antipodes share
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Open College with Dr. Stephen R.C. Hicks EP #34 | “Democratic Socialism for Beginners” I take up these questions: * What is socialism? * What is democracy? * Is democratic socialism an oxymoron or a possibility? * Can socialism be only about money or also religion, sex, and art? * Must democratic socialism slide into
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This is an additional event, scheduled for Saturday morning. Those who purchased a ticket for the May 11th evening will have access to this event too. Subscribers to my thinkspot will, as always, get free access. Trailer for the three-event series is here. Or sign up here.
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The next three episodes are into production: Thomas Kuhn’s De-Structuring Science When Covid-30 Strikes Is God Provable/Disprovable? Other episodes in the series:
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