This semester I have been co-teaching a class on ancient and modern accounts of science. I have asked the students to consider the physicists’ dilemma—that, scientifically speaking, the table we gather around is mostly empty space and electro-magnetic fields. What to do, then, about a human life that must be lived out around a table which feels perfectly table-like to us? I’m not cruel enough to ask the students to read Husserl’s
on four different ways to lie to yourself
on four different ways to lie to yourself
on four different ways to lie to yourself
This semester I have been co-teaching a class on ancient and modern accounts of science. I have asked the students to consider the physicists’ dilemma—that, scientifically speaking, the table we gather around is mostly empty space and electro-magnetic fields. What to do, then, about a human life that must be lived out around a table which feels perfectly table-like to us? I’m not cruel enough to ask the students to read Husserl’s