America’s distinctive contribution to philosophy is called pragmatism. Like all notions that have been marinated and masticated by generations of academic philosophers, this movement has been minced to bits. At the beginning, though, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pragmatism was a reaction by the likes of C.S. Peirce , William James and John Dewey to the idealistic philosophies of Europe. Truth is not to be found in some palace of the mind apart from the world, they argued. Read More...
A female penguin with leucism from the Gentoo species has been filmed at a base in Antarctica. White penguins are rare because leucism is caused by a recessive gene, and they may be more vulnerable to predators due to being more easily seen.
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