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Tackling the Identity Question

By Simon Laraway
March 28, 2022 04:23 PM
Everyone’s got one, but what does it really mean to have an identity? Is identity something we choose or something we possess naturally? The answer is more complex than you might think.
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Trying Galileo: Breathing New Life into Centuries-old Debates

By Hannah Scott
January 27, 2022 08:37 AM
Would you find Galileo guilty of heresy? Would you put him to death? These are questions that students grappled with in their two-week mock trial for Philosophy 210 class.
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Looking Beyond the Pandemic: Questions from the Field of Medical Ethics

By Julie Irvine
January 24, 2022 02:52 PM
Philosophy and the field of medicine have complementary roles in helping us ask difficult questions and propose workable solutions to today’s pressing concerns.
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“Two things fill the mind with increasing admiration and reverence the more often and more steadily one reflects upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
– Immanuel Kant