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Roy Joseph

Who’s Afraid of Angels and Aliens, Alienation and Etcetera?

June 1, 2012 by Roy Joseph 2 Comments

Socially speaking, as opposed to orations in solipsism, it can be quite alienating to bring up the promises and perils of alien life, especially in the middle of a serious conversation.  By aliens, I do not mean our fellow human beings who rarely ever garner the support of rabid nationalists anywhere. Imagine the late Jean Marie Le-Pen breaking a baguette with a North African immigrant, not for the sake of a photo‐shoot but out of a genuine sense of ubi caritas et amor.   It is nearly impossible to persuade an … [Read more...] about Who’s Afraid of Angels and Aliens, Alienation and Etcetera?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Science and Faith, Vocation Tagged With: alien, alienation, aliens, angel, angels, Astronomy, bible, Buddhism, Confuciainism, creation, hinduism, jesus, metaphysics, Prayer, sin, space, time, time management, Yahweh

Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed: Part II

May 11, 2012 by Roy Joseph Leave a Comment

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Picking up from Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed (5/10/2012) . . . Back to Robots!! Personally, despite my earlier remonstration, I would be quite happy to learn all sorts of subjects from a robot. A robot is not going to rob us of our humanity and despoil our personhood – after all, we have less to fear from machines ‘wanting' to behave like humans, as much as humans wanting to behave like machines (Hence, my prefatory diatribe against the social engineering of technocrats and their worrisome bedfellows in academic … [Read more...] about Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed: Part II

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Technology in Higher Ed Tagged With: consciousness, Doctor Bot Ed, Hippocampus, mathematics, Robots, Roman General Marcus Claudius Marcellu, The Ph.D. Octopus, William James

Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed

May 10, 2012 by Roy Joseph 3 Comments

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This post is a patchwork of tattered reflections on a slew of topics ranging from humans behaving like robots to robots behaving like humans, mind-reading technologies, maybe cyborgs and so forth. There is no grand thesis tucked away in a prose that finds low triviality and high seriousness equally endearing. The hope here is that the reader, if any, would walk away feeling enough esprit to want to grab somebody gently and engage in debate until the Holy Spirit returns our souls to the still waters. “Be Still and know … [Read more...] about Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Life in the Academy, Technology in Higher Ed Tagged With: Alan Turing, artificial intelligence, C. S. Lewis, Can Machines think?, David Berlinski, Doctor Bot Ed, John Keats, John Milton, John Ruskin, Kafka, Kevin Warwick, King John, Lucifer, Orwell, Pardise Lost, Robots, Roger Schank, Satan, Thomas Jefferson, Tour of the Calculus, Wordsworth

An Apologia for Charlatanism – On the art of reading much and knowing little

May 3, 2012 by Roy Joseph 1 Comment

After heeding the Surgeon General's statutory warning that lives, bridges and sermons are not to demise on the reprise of this theme, shall we visit the premise of charlatanism and test its truth and troth. Charlatans are contextual chameleons who can hold a conversation about any topic without having a deeper insight into definitions or knowing whether or not their claims are based on factual grounds. I am hard pressed to meet a Christian or sober- ­minded secular intellectual who will sanctify this concept. A few … [Read more...] about An Apologia for Charlatanism – On the art of reading much and knowing little

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, The Purpose of Education Tagged With: Apostle Paul, charlatan, conceptual blends, David Hume, Don Quixote, Dulcinea, faith, G.K. Chesteron, Generalists, Gilles Fauconnier, Harry Frankfurt, Mark Turner, Specialists, sprezzatura, The Way We Think

A Tale of Two Christ(s)

April 26, 2012 by Roy Joseph 1 Comment

Today, we have a guest post by Roy Joseph. Roy is an independent scholar who has taught previously at academic institutions in Pittsburgh and in the Chicago land area. Currently, he is working on a project on Creation and Cosmology and is deeply interested in issues of history and philosophy of science, theological aesthetics and creative writing as well. Please be sure to share your thoughts regarding "A Tale of Two Christ(s).  ~ Tom An incendiary title of this nature might lead one to presume that this … [Read more...] about A Tale of Two Christ(s)

Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: academic culture, calling, careerism, CCM, Christ, Christian Contemporary Scholarship, culture, faith, fractured Christ, integration, Two Natures, vocation

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