Arts & Humanities

The Great Courses Plus

"Academically comprehensive and relentlessly engaging, our courses bring lifelong learners face-to-face with trusted professors and subject matter experts on topics ranging from science and history to philosophy and religion to travel and professional growth." By request.

Emily Dickinson, poems of

Her works are calibrated at 435 (awareness) in Truth vs. Falsehood. By request.

doctrine of double effect

"sometimes it is permissible to cause a harm as an unintended and merely foreseen *side effect* (or 'double effect') of bringing about a good result even though it would not be permissible to cause such a harm as a *means* to bringing about the same good end." Priority request.

Judith Butler, philosophy of

Request: Seems she has played a significant role in preferred pronouns push and gender performativity.

Foundation Books (Asimov)

Request: There is a current Apple TV series which you have calibrated purporting to be based upon these book. Values portrayed in the show are nothing like those portrayed in the books.

determinism

"a philosophical view where all events are determined completely by previously existing causes" -- wikipedia.

sociocracy

Request: a non-hierarchical governance system for organizations that uses consent-based decision-making and a structure of interconnected "circles" to share power and achieve goals -- Google AI.

technocracy

A proposed system of government in which the decision-maker or makers are selected on the basis of their expertise in a given area of responsibility, particularly with regard to scientific or technical knowledge -- wikipedia.

Hillsdale College online courses (free)

Learn from distinguished faculty (including Victor Davis Hanson) in courses inspired by Hillsdale’s core curriculum.

telegony (historical theory)

By request. A "theory of heredity holding that offspring can inherit the characteristics of a previous mate of the female parent; thus the child of a woman might partake of traits of a previous sexual partner. The theory used to be accepted as a fact by the Ancient Greeks" – wikipedia.

res cogitans

Descartes' concept for "a non-physical substance of which minds are composed," according to Wikipedia. Doc used the term in lectures and in his writing, including eight mentions in Truth vs. Falsehood.

wabi-sabi philosophy

"the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty." (wabi - beauty in simplicity, sabi-passage of time).

My Big Toe: A Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics

By nuclear physicist Thomas Campbell, written in the language of contemporary Western culture.

stoicism

"a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world" --wikipedia

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Misspelled words, punctuation, etc...