by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 17, 2017 | Pulse
July 2017 Pulse Two planned performances in the recently-concluded M1 Singapore Fringe Festival ran into difficulties with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) due to “excessive nudity”. In ‘Naked Ladies’, burlesque dancer Thea Fitz-James strips and...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 3, 2017 | Pulse
July 2017 Pulse At a recent Ethos Institute seminar on ‘Science and the Christian Faith’, a participant asked an important question pertaining to the relationship between mathematical models and reality. Mathematicians and philosophers are still debating this...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 19, 2017 | Pulse
June 2017 Pulse Last November, Oxford Dictionaries declared “post-truth” as the international word for the year 2016. So significant is this expression that Oxford Dictionaries’ Casper Grathwohl even said it could become “one of the defining words of our time”....
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 5, 2017 | Pulse
June 2017 Pulse Last year, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced that the government is increasing funding for research in the social sciences and humanities in Singapore by 45 percent. ‘Our region today is a fascinating and fertile ground for study’,...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 15, 2017 | Pulse
May 2017 Pulse One of the reasons that the National Council of Churches of Singapore gave for rejecting physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia in its 2008 statement is that these actions are “against the very ethos of medical practice”. The betrayal of...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 2, 2017 | Pulse
May 2017 Pulse In his 1983 article published in Pediatrics, the controversial Princeton University ethicist Peter Singer argues unabashedly that nonhuman animals have greater morally significance than a seriously deformed or disabled human infant. ‘If we compare a...
