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Browsing by Author Baer, Richard
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| Preview | Issue Date | Title | Author(s) | | 28-Apr-1994 | The nature of the environmental debate, extremist language, the Loyal Opposition, magnanimity and trust vs. government regulation, developing standards for truth-telling in the context of contentious issues, elephants in Zimbabwe, the Boston Rt 128 loop, development value, Henry George Progress and Poverty, ethics of transition and compromise, Spotted Owl habitat, property use restrictions | Baer, Richard |
| 25-Sep-2003 | Philosophy of science - faith and reason, values and facts; fallibism, running commentary on Ian Barbour Issues in Science and Religion: logical positivism and the "verification principle", factual claims vs. value claims, Michael Polanyi Personal Knowledge, brief discussion | Baer, Richard |
| 13-Nov-2003 | Reinhold Niebuhr, history of Judaism and Christianity, Paul's letter to the Galatians, God's love, freedom, writer's block at Harvard | Baer, Richard |
| 16-Sep-2003 | Relationship between humans and nature, dominion over nature, H. and H.A. Frankfort Before Philosophy, ancient and modern cultural myths, Lynn White The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis, Western scientific progress and the desacralization of nature, Louis Moncrief The Cultural Basis of Our Environmental Crisis, democratization and the exploitation of nature, Biblical environmentalism, short discussion | Baer, Richard |
| 3-Feb-1994 | Religion in the University: Emil Brunner, Jefferson and the use of the word sectarian, implications for government public schools, the Big Questions, religious neutrality, a functional view of religion, Emil Durkheim, the Cornell School of Human Ecology, discussion | Baer, Richard |
| 28-Oct-2003 | Running commentary on Stanley Hauerwas on Iris Murdoch, the concepts of freedom, humility, and love | Baer, Richard |
| 7-Oct-2003 | Science in the context of an absence of transcendent authority, the need for authoritative community, a functional view of religion, Emil Durkheim, the Big Questions, Wilfred Cantwell Smith | Baer, Richard |
| 6-Nov-2003 | Sin, determinism, human responsibility, Reinhold Niebuhr | Baer, Richard |
| 1-Mar-1994 | Stanley Hauerwas on Iris Murdoch, the meaning of "freedom", rationality in the service of desire vs. being part of a worthy story, cost-benefit analysis vs. "unselfing", Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, discussion | Baer, Richard |
| 3-Mar-1994 | Uriah the Hittite, ideological taint, sensuality vs. pride | Baer, Richard |
| 10-Feb-1994 | Wayne Booth The Rhetoric of Assent, knowledge claims in the hard sciences vs. knowledge claims in the humanities, Neurath's boat, how to show proper respect for moral and religious arguments | Baer, Richard |
| 30-Oct-2003 | Wendell Berry, hyper-individualism and faithfulness to each other and to the environment, the environmental effect of social pathologies, the interrelatedness of things, David Blankenhorn, fatherlessness | Baer, Richard |
| 4-Nov-2003 | What do Christianity and Judaism have to say about environmental ethics, Plato, the ancient Hebrews, Deuteronomy 26:1-9, Joshua, the Decalogue, Emil Brunner | Baer, Richard |
| 18-Sep-2001 | What is nature, discussion, the infamous caterpillar example | Baer, Richard |
| 5-Apr-1994 | What is nature? Gordon Kaufman The Concept of Nature: A Problem for Theology; terms: nature, natural, artificial, world, cosmos, universe | Baer, Richard |
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