Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Martha Nussbaum
Born: May 6, 1947 (age 78)
Bio: Martha Craven Nussbaum is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, a chair that includes appointments in the philosophy department and the law school.
Known for:
- Upheavals of thought (2001)
- Creating Capabilities (2010)
- The Fragility of Goodness (1986)
- Political Emotions (2013)
- The New Religious Intolerance (2012)