"In this article, after briefly describing the meaning of the notion of truth, I have tried to analyse the relation between value and science in detail and provide an explanation for the present-day hypertrophic, rigid, and not reality-bound value system and its ideological penetration into science and medicine."
Our latest published issue is a special issue on social histories of #religion across the world. Although it is in French, two articles are already available in English:
Penitential #truth or judicial truth? Examining through manuals the sentencing practices of the #SpanishInquisition, Jean-Pierre Dedieu and Gunnar W. Knutsen explore the inner workings of the institution, and uncover the tension between repression and salvation at its heart, opening new questions about the history of #justice in early-modern Europe.
I recently tried to join Mastodon, and like Twitter before it, I don’t understand the premise. You follow individuals instead of topics, and if you try to follow hashtags they change on a whim all the time so you’re unlikely to get relevant posts....
New publication out: “Not So Simple”, a rebuttal of Jc Beall’s ‘Simple Argument for FDE’. I gesture at some ideas about the grounds for rational change of view on logic, but hope to develop that more in the future.
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth-century invention.
Centuries ago, our society buried profound differences of conscience, ideas, and faith, and in their place erected facts, which did not seem to rise or fall on pesky political and philosophical questions. But the power of facts is now waning, not because we don’t have enough of them but because we have so many.
WWE SURVIVOR SERIES: WARGAMES! Discussion Thread 11/25/23 (kbin.social)
Tonight, WWE is LIVE from Chicago with Survivor Series: Wargames! The card for the show includes:...
I don't understand the whole Twitter/Mastodon social media format
I recently tried to join Mastodon, and like Twitter before it, I don’t understand the premise. You follow individuals instead of topics, and if you try to follow hashtags they change on a whim all the time so you’re unlikely to get relevant posts....