Archive for the ‘reason’ Category
What exactly is this "Living with Questions"?
November 8th, 2008 by Dale Fincher
I’m glad you asked. I’ve been getting this question in a variety of ways so I thought I’d lay it out for the record. When you spend a long time writing a book, you’d hate to see people who are looking for a book like yours miss the opportunity to read it because they just [...]
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"Americans Hostile to Knowledge"
February 15th, 2008 by Dale Fincher
Susan Jacoby wrote a book I’m ordering today: The Age of American Unreason American anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism is on a roll…. and many, if not most, Americans don’t even think it matters. Her thesis isn’t new… but I’m hoping it will be accessible enough to recommend to those caught with the disease. Read todays article: [...]
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The Difficulty of "Tolerance"
February 13th, 2008 by Dale Fincher
Well, ‘intolerance’ used to be a pejorative word for the ‘right wingers’ even though cultural critics and philosophers pointed out that the use of the word in society is often self-defeating. In the old days, ‘tolerance’ is what we do to things that annoy us. The fly buzzing around my desk is annoying, so I [...]
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