Gilbert Harman (born 1938) is an American philosopher, teaching at Princeton University since 1963, who has published widely in linguistics, semantics, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, ethics, moral psychology, epistemology, statistical learning theory, and metaphysics. Gilbert Harman in his defense of Moral Relativism makes a case for the relativity of the moral judgments that we read more…
Introduction From October 19 to 25, 2010, thousands of Tibetan students from six schools in Qinghai Tibetan region (the only ethnic Tibetan region that still uses the Tibetan language medium beyond primary school) staged peaceful protests against the government plan to enforce Mandarin as the medium of instruction by 2015, bringing to the fore China’s read more…
Central European University is pleased to announce the Tibet Scholarsip Program which will fund up to two talented scholars of Tibetan origin for their graduate studies at Central European University in a one-year or two-year MA or MS degree program. The scholarship includes: Tuition waiver Housing in the CEU Residence read more…
The notion of personal identity invites two major questions: First, what is it to be a person? The most contested notions that the self is simply the mind, the body, and the how they interact. Thus, selfhood can be seen as the mind, the body and how they interact with each other. Second, what is read more…
Passing over the lofty mountains, Fluttering the prayer flags, Highland gale carried The unparalleled melody of a shepherd’s flute. He sings the song thou hath long ago sung. Boughs bowed, rivulet skipped a breath. In a poignant mute, I hearken to Thy immense songs of glowing beauties and wisdom. Thou gave warmth to the snow read more…
Introduction In October 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed establishment of the Peoples’ Republic of China, and a year later Peoples’ Liberation Army occupied Tibet. Since then, Tibetans became a part of China’s 55 ethnic minorities. In Tibet, mass modern education started after the Chinese takeover. However, education in Tibet suffered tremendous setbacks during 1960s and 1970s read more…
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Tibet’s Forgotten War: Cursed by the Cold War How and why did CIA suddenly withdraw its covert military assistance to Tibetan Resistance Movement in 1969? Introduction This historical investigation scrutinizes how CIA provided military assistance to Tibetan resistance guerrillas from 1957 to 1969 and examines why the US government stopped the CIA covert mission into read more…
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“There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature…[1]” – Niels Bohr As Niels Bohr, one of the greatest physicists to have lived in the twentieth century, read more…
By Richard Dawkins “…Darwin was way ahead of his time in understanding the magnitude of the problem of our existence, as well as in tumbling to its solutions. He was ahead of his time, too, in appreciating the mutual dependencies of animals and plants and all other creatures, in relationships whose intricacy staggers the imagination read more…
By Pema Norbu Earlham College, Indiana The Tibetan exiles’ third general election of Kalon Tripa (Prime Minster) and Dalai Lama’s subsequent decision to relinquish centuries old Tibetan traditional practice of politics raised concerns among Tibetan people in and outside Tibet about the future trend of Tibetan political movement. The level of anxiety is particularly high read more…
