Cozy Up to Whole Foods
Posted on October 28, 2014
in THR Web Features
Image: Whole Foods “Values Matter” campaign ad, Wall Street Journal, October 2014.
Whole Foods Market is tired of your “whole paycheck” jokes. Recently, “America’s healthiest grocery store” launched a multi-million dollar advertising campaign titled Values Matter.
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.”
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