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Education as Knowledge Games
But if the concept “game” is without boundaries…you don’t really know what you mean by a “game.” Wittgenstein (PI, 69) George Pattison’s Thinking About God in an Age of Technology (Oxford University...
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Against Magic: In Defense of Beauty
After my last post on Roger Scruton’s defense of the humanities, Steve commented that perhaps I was overstating the differences between the two cultures of the sciences and the humanities: “We ought...
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Education as Pilgrimage
In his lovely book on the liberal arts, Stratford Caldecott describes an element of the Enlightenment’s re-interpretation of knowledge. Part of the via moderna, according to Caldecott, was mathesis, or...
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The Quadrivium: Hearing the Music of the Spheres
In my last post, I laid out a brief case for why a modern day liberal arts education should still be founded on the Trivium. As important as I think the Trivium is, however, the Quadrivium is equally...
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Theology as the Diaconate of Truth
A few years ago, much to my shame, I got caught up in a Twitter war over the relationship between Theology and the other academic disciplines. I was trying to argue (in 140 characters at a time) that...
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Truth, Beauty: Why I Teach Beautiful Poetry
When we look at the world through the eyes of measurements and data, we think about how we can use the thing we are measuring. But when we look at the world through eyes that see its beauty, we lay...
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Organizing Enlightenment at a Christian University
Organizing Enlightenment, by Chad Wellmon, charts the way eighteenth-century German universities developed as a response to an overwhelming amount of printed information. Much like the contemporary...
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Do Androids Worship in Electric Temples? (Part 1)
Science fiction has a deep and abiding interest in religious matters. But why this interest? And what makes science fiction qualified to address it in a way that will profit our students?
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Do Androids Worship in Electric Temples? Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part series on an interdisciplinary course I taught with a colleague this semester: Do Androids Worship in Electric Temples? Science Fiction through the Lens of...
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Is Belief Bad? An Open Letter to First-Year Composition Students
Our culture says that only thing we can know to be absolutely true is factual data. Our culture says that belief and opinion are largely valueless, better kept to ourselves than asserted as truth. Yet...
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