The Nature of Reasons: Two Philosophers Feud Over a Book Review
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Over the ages, philosophy has offered valuable guidance on profound questions of truth, beauty and existence, yet still unresolved is the conundrum of how to respond to a bad book review.
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Who says people don&#39;t care about books? For the second year in a row, controversy has swirled around the National Book Awards.
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A new Russian national book prize spurs debate about a literary academy and the state of modern Russian literature.
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Traditionally, clashes over academic freedom have pitted politicians or administrators against instructors who wanted to express their opinions and teach as they saw fit. But increasingly, it is students who are invoking academic freedom, claiming biased professors are violating their right to a classroom free from indoctrination.
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By Ojala, Marydee  It's human nature to make assumptions. We hear or read something and assume it's true (or untrue) based on our previous experience or on how the information is presented. This can be dangerous.
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ÂThe lingering, perceived essence of anotherÂ sounds like the subject of a Proustian rumination. In fact, it is a line from an academic paper last April in The Journal of Marketing, by Jennifer J. Argo, Darren W. Dahl, and Andrea C. Morales. The authors examined a phenomenon that drives store managers crazy: consumers love to touch products in stores, but they hate buying things others have touched.
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Some scientists are thinking twice about doing or reporting certain research, reacting to political and social controversy in addition to legal restrictions.
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By Lindee, Susan  REBECCA M. HERZIG, Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. ?+194. ISBN: 0-8135-3662-6.
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Some fashionable texts are based on ''shaky thinking.''
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The arguments have been made, and now a judge must decide: Do disclaimers Cobb County stuck in its science textbooks two years ago - calling evolution a &quot;theory, not a fact&quot; â-iolate the principle of separation between church and state?
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A philosopher makes a case for setting limits on self-improvement, genetic and otherwise.
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The Beethoven piano sonatas tell a story, but which story is a matter of debate.
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Biologists have fought long and sometimes bitterly about how birds evolved -- but a new study published on Thursday suggests that their intellectual battle may have been all in vain.
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One is long, the other is longer. Two newly published translations of "War and Peace" have prompted renewed debate over the famed work by Leo Tolstoy.
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One angry word begets another, and one Fool tries to sort out who's closer to the truth.
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Reclusive author Thomas Pynchon has defended Ian McEwan, who is facing criticism over allegations that he used details from another book in his 2002 best seller, "Atonement."
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What are you doing? I mean, right now. You're reading a book review. A review of a book that, as it happens, is almost certain to become quite famous among intellectuals around the world over the next few ...