The Infant Mind

Working to uncover the foundations of human knowledge, that is, what we "know" at birth, Dr. Elizabeth Spelke is following the path laid by Descartes, Kant and Locke. But in studying the bedrock categories of human knowledge - number, space, agency - she's going about it in a novel way: she's studying babies.

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Cracks in USAFA's Honor Code

The Air Force Academy's honor system might be losing its hold on the nation's future officers, but can the Academy actually track cadets' moral growth?

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Evidence in Science and Religion

What constitues evidence? Is scientific evidence different from say, religious evidence? How? Stanley Fish has some thoughts:

The very act of looking around is always and already performed within a set of fully elaborate assumptions complete with categories, definitions and rules that tell you in advance what kinds of things might be “discovered” and what relationships of cause and effect, contiguity, sameness and difference, etc., might obtain between them. In Hebrews 11:1, St. Paul speaks of the “evidence of things not seen.” In the up-to-date accounts of scientific inquiry, the corollary would be “the evidence of things not directly seen,” but things that can be brought to (indirect and provisional) visibility by the assumption and application of powerful theories and the procedures they call into being.

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