The dominant public attitude toward Philosophy has steadily shifted from interest, to dis-illusion, to confusion, to dis-interest, to ridicule throughout the 20th century. The culmulating influence of post-modernism was in full display in the late 1960s, as the culture disintegrated into the arbitrary, violent, and
The slow destruction of philosophy, starting with the rejection of the mind’s ability to perceive Reality, as enunciated byKant (based in turn on a history of ideas starting with Plato), and accelerating gradually through the progressive dominance of Rationalism and Empiricism in the 18th and
It is proper for engineers to assess risk in the undertaking of any project, and to monitor the development and implementation of plans to mitigate the identified risks, to raise the probability of success in the endeavor. A standard approach to measuring risk is to