The reason for thinking that there will be no ‘last’ philosophy is simply that no answer can fail to be an answer to a question, and no question can guarantee its own permanent relevance.
~ Richard Rorty
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Monthly Archives: January 2025
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
~ Dean Acheson
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Campus Life at
Case Western Reserve University
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Anonymous surveys of various fields find that roughly 2 percent of scholars will admit to having fabricated, falsified, or modified data at least once in their career. But business-school psychology may be especially prone to misbehavior. For one thing, the field’s research standards are weaker than those for other psychologists. In response to the replication crisis, campus psychology departments have lately taken up a raft of methodological reforms.
~ Daniel Engber
via The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
published in The Atlantic on November 19, 2024
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Against foreign powers, a prince can defend himself with good weapons and good friends; if he has good weapons, he will never lack for good friends.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Campus Life at
Deakin University
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Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
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Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Campus Life at the
University of North Dakota
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I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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