The Committee on the Study of Religion admits students who have clearly defined intellectual interests evidenced in the statement of purpose and completed application.
I visit on a Friday night, with my wife Caroline, and Charlie, a teacher friend, and there are precious few intellectuals in evidence.
Intellectual Propery: Scientific Evidence in Patent Litigation. 3 Units.
To each applicant, Chicago assigns a "fit" rating based on holistic measures — say, intellectual curiosity or evidence that a student applied a favorite subject to life.
Are they subject categories, chronological gatherings, project clusters, a map of intellectual terrain or evidence of the constraints of space and shelving?
Everything is on the table, so long as we are conducting business in the currency of intellectual discourse — marshaling evidence, giving reasons, making arguments — not for the sake of victory, but in the sincere pursuit of truth.
A virtue epistemologist would reverse the order of analysis, defining justified belief as one that manifests intellectual virtue, and evidence in terms of intellectual virtue.
I will now turn to considerations that seem to count for the view that intellectual intuitions are evidence for the propositions that are their objects.
A fourth approach offers ideal conditions under which rational insights, or intellectual intuitions, provide evidence (requiring ideal conditions is not unique to this approach as Bealer 1996b and 1999 and Peacocke 2000 also require them in their defense of intuition based on concept possession).
It follows from such inclinations that many in this group would interpret Obama's own intellectual style as evidence of a scheming and conniving mind.
