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Belief: Necessary or Not?

By Simon Laraway
December 21, 2022 12:58 PM
Oxford professor of philosophy Mark Wrathall explains that there is a difference between faith and belief, and a religious life doesn't necessarily require both.
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Recent College Leadership Changes

By Julie Irvine
December 02, 2022 11:41 AM
Effective this summer, several new faculty have assumed leadership positions in the College of Humanities.
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A Giant in the Field of Pre-Socratic Philosophy

By Simon Laraway
December 01, 2022 10:00 AM
A philosophy conference honors Daniel Graham, professor emeritus and eminent scholar of pre-Socratic philosophy.
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Philosophical Student Society

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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