Tag: Philosophy

Colleges and universities have long offered majors in religion or theology. But with more and more people now saying they have no religion, one college has decided to be the first to offer a major in secularism.

Jesuit professor argues that since neither science nor religion can prove its case, there is common ground between religion and science.

What is happiness? How does one get a grip on this most elusive, intractable and perhaps unanswerable of questions?

The late Bernard D. Davis, Adele Lehman Professor at the Harvard Medical School, was a pioneer and a leader in the field of microbial physiology.  Here he explains the assumptions and traditions that underlie the scientific enterprise. His love for science shines through this description of how scientists think and work, how they choose problems, seek answers, deal with ambiguity in experimental results, maintain standards, and understand issues of credit, cooperation, and competition. This paper describes the features of the world of science, and it compares that world briefly with that of politics and the law.  The paper includes broader implications of interactions of government and science.