The Pursuit to Turn Data Into Action
As most ardent supporters of data will admit, even the most sophisticated indicator needs something more: community buy-in.
The Hedgehog’s Array: October 24, 2014
Posted on October 24, 2014
in THR Web Features
“What is Liberal Education For?”: A Conference Postmortem
The liberal education conference has now come and gone. My own panel went well, though I think I left with the same question I had going in, namely: Are there any truthful instrumental arguments to be made for liberal education?
John Searle and the Threat of Artificial Intelligence
Posted on October 22, 2014
in Infernal Machine
It is at the point of this speculative possibility that Searle’s argument becomes both more interesting and more problematic, for it probes—somewhat indirectly, but powerfully nonetheless—the significance of the “artificial,” a category under which we can put both “art,” “artifice,” and certainly “technology.”
Cities, Water, and the Fabric of Sustainability
With the world's population rapidly moving to cities, sustainability issues such as energy, water, and food, will increasingly be urban concerns.
A Connoisseur of Vanishing Acts: An Interview With John Rosenthal
Posted on October 21, 2014
in THR Web Features
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Literature brought me to photography, but not right away. I had to learn somewhere that what you see isn’t all there is, and I learned it by reading.
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