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Serenity
Oct 10
I just want to be there right now… in the middle of a pond drifting to nowhere with the only company of my dog… and a good book.
Gorgeous
Peter Sterrett of Tiverton, Rhode Island, paddles with his dog Cody on a pond in Derry, New Hampshire on Sunday morning, October 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Carl Sagan and my teacher
Feb 18
A few days ago I attended to the first class of Epistemology this semester. The teacher said a few words as an introduction and then he inmediately played a videotape of one of the episodes of the popular TV Series “Cosmos”, by Carl Sagan. The topic of the episode was the place and the time where science was born. Sagan explained that the “empirics”, headed by Democritus, tried to interpret all the natural events without the presence of a God. Sagan also explained that the “rationalists”, a different stream, tried to give an explanation to all the events by the power of God, or the gods. A good example is a sentence of Pythagoras, head of the “rationalists”: Don’t look to the stars, think about them.
If I’m writing this is because at the end of the video the teacher was pretty critical with Sagan, saying that all his language in the video was epic, making us recall a way of speech far different from that one the scientists are supposed to express themselves. This is the first time I hear somebody being critical with Sagan. I have a guess, and it’s that the teacher doesn’t like science as an explanation to everything. Maybe in a certain way he is right, but I don’t think that the Faculty of Psychology is the proper place to be critical to science. Psychology needs to be more scientific than a lot of other disciplines. We barely have demonstrated anything, so it’s not time to blame science for something so foggy like language.
