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    I suspect evolutionary and behavioural perspectives are left seriously underappreciated in this approach to epistemology. Reichenbach’s claim that epistemology must…

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    Then my question is how many of ordinary mathematicians also qualify as artists of their profession…

Reed College capitulates to mindless 18-year-olds…

…and of course they aren't satisfied, which should be a warning to any school that thinks of capitulating and substituting juvenile consumerism for academic judgment.  This remark by a faculty member is apt:

Meanwhile, defenders of Hum 110 — which currently begins with the Epic of Gilgamesh and ends with the Bible and Apuleius’ The Golden Ass — have argued that critics err in transposing modern notions of race into the course, or even misunderstand it altogether.

“The idea that Hum 110 is a ‘white’ course is very strange to me,” Jay Dickson, a professor of English, recently told Reed Magazine. “It presupposes that our contemporary racial categories are timeless.”

Perhaps Reed should make all incoming students read Adolf Reed instead?

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