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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
William of Ockham—philosopher, logician, theologian, Franciscan friar, and enemy of the church—has largely been accredited ...
The New Yorker8 天
The Philosopher L. A. Paul Wants Us to Think About Our Selves
To whom should we have allegiance—the version of ourself making choices, or the version of ourself who will be affected by ...
Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?
It’s long been believed that Silicon Valley is a hotbed for libertarian ideals, but where did that idea come from? Aside from ...
Forbes27 天
The Stanford Prison Experiment And Its Enduring Lessons On Authority
In 1971, a groundbreaking experiment was conducted in the basement of Stanford University, aiming to unearth dark truths about power, authority, and the human psyche. This study, known as the ...
Time27 天
Everything You Know About the Stanford Prison Experiment Is Wrong
In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of ...
Psychology Today20 天
Enabling Definitions of Disability
A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In ...
The Daily Beast27 天
Were the Horrors of the Stanford Prison Experiment Exaggerated and Faked?
We’re talking about a social-science experiment called “the Stanford Prison Experiment” that, for decades, has been used by nihilists as concrete evidence that all humans are secretly ...
Associated Press10 天
Andrew Luck returns to Stanford as the GM of the football program
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Former Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck stands on the sideline during the second half of an NCAA ...
The Stanford Review9 天
EXCLUSIVE: The Review Interviews President Levin
Stanford Review: Hi President Levin, thank you so much for agreeing to do this interview. Also, happy belated birthday! Your father was the president of Yale. Obviously, you are now the President of ...
The Stanford Daily29 天
From the Community | Selfishness or solidarity? The case for faculty support of graduate ...
Indeed, for every STEM Ph.D. student who leaves Stanford with a high-paying job in industry, there are dozens from history, literature, area studies, philosophy and many other fields essential to ...
Ars Technica28 天
Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment 50 years later
In 1971, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted a notorious experiment in which he randomly divided college students into two groups, guards and prisoners, and set them loose ...
Mercury News29 天
College Sports
The Cal Bears have known for months that they were hosting the first Big Game of the ACC era, and Monday the rivalry game against Stanford was assigned a kickoff time: 12:30 p.m. The 127th Big ...