FOTE is a blog that covers news and issues in neuroscience, religion, philosophy of science, metaphysics, mythology, politics/history, public health, medicine, and the intersection of medicine and science with society.
And any other 5-minute pop culture tidbit I feel like throwing in. ;-)
Or to put it more precisely - this blog is devoted to the idiosyncratic tastes of its owner, which ranges across a wide breadth of fields and issues.
If there's any particular methodology beneath the string of posts to come, it will arise out of three principles:
- Comparability - I've always been fascinated by cross-cultural differences. Whether its in the form of social organization, religious structures, philosophical assumptions, scientific theories, political models, etc., one can easily find vast differences in the approach to these topics the moment a person steps out of one cultural milieu and into another.
What is it that they are perceiving? How are they handling challenges that their counterparts face?
What assumptions inform their actions? Are their solutions transferable to other groups?
Do they even recognize or acknowledge the situations we might call problematic as problems?
- Hospitality - No matter how much a person may seek a form of Neutrality in relating or expressing different viewpoints, he or she is bound to fall short. We are only human after all.
I obviously possess a viewpoint, limited by my own experiences. However, that does not
prevent me from being generous, charitable, and hospitable to ideas that I disagree with.
.....Within reason of course.... ;-)
- Fun! - Many of the subjects discussed are things I am genuinely passionate about. So I hope a little of that rubs off on whomever is reading this blog.
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