Like so many young people in America, I was introduced to an important academic discipline in college purely by accident. In my particular case, the year was 1975, the subject was philosophy, and the accident was the person of one …
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It’s the birthday of the father of modern philosophy, Rene’ Descartes, who began his professional life as a prominent mathematician and scientist in 17th Century France. His much better-known explorations into philosophy came as an accident, when he realized that doubt …
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