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Organizing Fellow: Mlada Bukovansky (Government)
“Wouldn’t the social fabric come undone
If we were wholly frank with everyone?”
The use of language to deceive appears to be a universal human trait. As Molière suggests, a world of absolute transparency and frankness would probably be unbearable. People find many reasons to conceal truth. Some of those reasons might be considered legitimate while others not, and judgments about the legitimacy of any particular deceit often are themselves contestable. Click here for more information on this project.
Organizing Fellows: Elisabeth Armstrong (Study of Women and Gender) and Marjorie Senechal (Mathematics & History of Science)
Who are we? Are we Homo faber, humans as makers, builders of a material world fashioned - in some sense - by inborn notions of space and time? Or are we Homo sapiens, supposedly intelligent humans, seeking patterns everywhere, finding them even when they aren't there, imposing them wherever we can? Or are we Homo ludens, humans as players, the defiant creators of carnivals and theater, exuberant arts, radical social movements and scientific revolutions? Or are we something of each? Click here for more information on this project.
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