Pythagoras made the first argument around 500 B.C. that the earth was round. It was Aristotle, a philosopher and scientist, born in 384 B.C. who provided the first proof that the earth was a spherical ...

In 1961, renowned German novelist Günter Grass openly criticized communist East Germany for building the Berlin Wall ostensibly to prevent West Germans from infiltrating the country. In reality, the ...

Growing up in the Dominican Republic, I rarely heard about climate change. I vaguely knew some information about the impact our world was suffering by the increased number of natural disasters around ...

Synthese, Vol. 192, No. 11, Special Issue on ONTOLOGY & METHODOLOGY (November 2015), pp. 3647-3662 (16 pages) Deploying distinctions between ignorance of p and ignorance that p (is true), and between ...

Everyone can easily recognize to what extent knowledge, information, and knowledge in general are a pledge of autonomy and their absence an open door to dependence and submission in all its forms.

We prize knowledge, and rightly so. We think of ignorance as a bad thing. But ignorance is inseparable from what we know. Knowledge can distract us, mislead us and endanger us. While ignorance is ...

“The argument these days between Opening the Doors and Maintaining Quarantine is the argument between ignorance and knowledge.” — Garrison Keillor I’ll admit to being as frustrated as any of you with ...

I have been tabulating a lot of replies to a survey I recently took of Ferris State University students, enrolled in the college’s two- and four-year HVACR programs. I asked students to tell me why ...