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...whatever the reason, more than 800 students swarmed into Sanders Theatre Monday afternoon for the first meeting of Philosophy 192--"Thinking About Thinking: Law, Science and Philosophy"--to watch Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould and Porter Professor of Philosophy Robert Nozick discuss their disciplines' contrasting approaches to knowledge...
...discussing the law, Dershowitz said that lawyers are not particularly concerned with truth...
...Truth is almost no part of the legal enterprise," Dershowitz said...
...impression mainly was that Dershowitz and Nozick are going to run the course, but, thankfully, Gould brought in the biological aspect," said Jennifer M. Chertow...
...Dershowitz explained in an interview after theclass that the idea for the course began fiveyears ago, when Gould asked him to help teach aclass on creationism...