Pragmatism (Catherine Legg)

Source First published Sat Aug 16, 2008; substantive revision Tue Apr 6, 2021 Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that – very broadly – understands knowing the world as inseparable from agency within it. This general idea has attracted a remarkably rich and at times contrary range of interpretations, including: that all philosophical concepts should be …

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Foucault: power is everywhere (Powercube)

Michel Foucault, the French postmodernist, has been hugely influential in shaping understandings of power, leading away from the analysis of actors who use power as an instrument of coercion, and even away from the discreet structures in which those actors operate, toward the idea that ‘power is everywhere’, diffused and embodied in discourse, knowledge and …

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Surgeon says ‘toxic’ DEI in medicine has led to ‘erosion’ of quality care: ‘Dangerous to our patients’ (Kristine Parks)

A surgeon blasted a top medical organization for doubling down on its antiracist initiatives at a time when many corporations and organizations are distancing themselves from these controversial principles. “America’s surgeons are not woke enough, according to the American College of Surgeons (ACS),” Dr. Richard Bosshardt penned in his column for the National Review this week.  The surgeon …

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Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream (Novara Media)

David suggests that there were highly sophisticated and interconnected societies in pre-civilization era. If this is true, they must have been civilized societies transformed from tribal state through the same evolutionary process, but destroyed by some natural forces. This does not change the evolutionary process society transforms itself. Watch the Video