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We Are All Victor Frankenstein: Our Romantic Dream of Artificial Intelligence
Life Imitating Art If ever there were a time in which one would be justified in repeating the old saw that life imitates art, it might be our present moment. Since 2020 with the release of Open AI’s consumer software application, Chat GPT, advances and widespread commercial adoption of Artificial Intelligence have become a familiar sight on our cultural horizon.
Tradition and the Deliberative Turn
A Critique of Contemporary Democratic Theory By Ryan R. Holston Subjects: Political Theory, Democracy, Communication, Political Philosophy Hardcover : 9781438492094, 218 pages, March 2023 Paperback : 9781438492087, 218 pages, September 2023 Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Rousseau’s Divorce of the Good from History 2. Kant Formalizes the Divorce 3. Democracy’s Deliberation 4. The Rehabilitation of Prejudice 5. Tradition’s Deliberation 6.
Science’s Assault on Free Will – Ryan R. Holston
What if peoples’ failures were never their fault but the product of genetic or environmental conditions into which they were born? Would such news be a cause for celebration regarding the newfound potential to improve these unfortunate circumstances and prevent human suffering, or would it be viewed as dangerous, a threat to the individual responsibility essential for any decent society?
Mary Shelley, Promethean Character, and the Authority of Science
1 Various thinkers have offered their own versions of this critique and are too numerous to list. But for a collection of essays devoted to some of them, see Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism, eds. Gene Callahan and McIntyre, Kenneth B. (Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020). 2 See Gadamer, Truth and Method, 2nd rev. ed., trans. Weinsheimer, Joel and Donald G. Marshall (New York: Continuum, 2004), 175–235.
Mary Shelley, Promethean Character, and the Authority of Science
1 Various thinkers have offered their own versions of this critique and are too numerous to list. But for a collection of essays devoted to some of them, see Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism, eds. Gene Callahan and McIntyre, Kenneth B. (Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020). 2 See Gadamer, Truth and Method, 2nd rev. ed., trans. Weinsheimer, Joel and Donald G. Marshall (New York: Continuum, 2004), 175–235.
Kristin Bien visits Marshall Traditional School
by Ryan Holston, WSBT 22 Photojournalist Marshall Traditional School won the "I love toRead" Challenge last week, so anchor Kristin Bien read to the students Friday. (WSBT Photo) Congratulations to Moran Elementary for winning today's I love to read Challenge! Since it is President's Day, they will get a visit from WSBT 22's First in the Morning anchor Leanne Tokars on March 1.
Moral Imagination in a Post-Constitutional Age – - Joshua Bowman
The claim that the United States is now in a “post-Constitutional age,” requires even less explanation than just a few months ago. One need only turn on the television or scan Twitter to observe how quickly fear, rage, sentimentalism, and talk of “revolution” can obliterate boundaries once erected to limit government, moderate factions, and protect fundamental rights and liberties. The response of government at all levels to the COVID-19 pandemic has quite blatantly violated Constitutional rights.
Ryan R. Holston column: Pandemic debate reflects our highest purposes
If you had to give your life for your country, what kind of a country would you want to give it for? That is the question I pose to cadets at the beginning of my political theory survey course every semester. One of the most prominent political theorists of the last century, Alasdair MacIntyre, laments what many take to be the first principle of government today: the pursuit of utilitarian ends.
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