Twentieth Century Religious Thought by John Macquarrie

PHILOSOPHY - The love of wisdom, SPIRIT MATTERS - Reaching for the Divine

The ideas of deep thinkers in religion are often at great variance from those of the average congregational member. Here, John Macquarrie (d.2007, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macquarrie and http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/world/europe/03macquarrie.html?_r=0), Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford, gives us a superb account of exactly those theories which have been at the frontiers of religious thought in the twentieth century. You […]

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Adventures of Ideas by Alfred North Whitehead

PHILOSOPHY - The love of wisdom

Alfred North Whitehead (Whitehead, Alfred North | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) was one of the most brilliant minds of his age. In Adventures of Ideas (1933) he offers the most accessible statement of his conception of  ‘process philosophy’  (Process Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)). In a nutshell this approach challenges over 2000 years of philosophical assumption.

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Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby

PAST PRESENT - Readings in History, PHILOSOPHY - The love of wisdom

A noted author of several books as well as articles in such publications as The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsday, and Vogue, Susan Jacoby  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Jacoby) attempts to set the record straight by demonstrating just what sort of role both individual freethinkers as well as more general movements and groups have had on significant

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Capital of the Mind

SCOTTISH INTEREST

The Scots are a small nation living in the north west corner of the British Isles remote from the traditional centres of power in England and the European continent. Yet miraculously the Scots have contributed an enormous amount to Western culture and civilisation. Their contribution has been quite disproportionate to their population. Eighteenth century Edinburgh was

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Supersizing the Mind by Andy Clark

PHILOSOPHY - The love of wisdom

Andy Clark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Clark), Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh argues for the position of the Extended Mind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extended_Mind and http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/). In its crudest form the contention here is that our minds are not something confined to what’s going on inside our skulls. As Clark says.. “certain forms of human cognizing include inextricable tangles of feedback,

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Almost like a Whale by Steve Jones

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE - Science & Technology

Professor Steve Jones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jones_(biologist)) of University College London offers us (1999) Darwin’s account of evolution by natural selection illuminated by the findings of twentieth century science. Evidence is brought forward from palaeontology, geology, botany, zoology, oceanography, anthropology, microbiology, epidemiology, medicine and plate tectonics. Jones beautifully expands or enriches Darwin’s themes using Darwin’s examples – pigeons, dogs, farm

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