Which discipline should survive the end of the world

Five professors from across campus will advocate that their discipline is the most important to save for the future in the annual Apocalypse Debate, sponsored by Logos, the undergraduate philosophy journal and club.

The debate, set for 5 p.m. Nov. 6 in Room G01 of Uris Hall, asks the professors to consider the following scenario:

There will be a cataclysmic near-extinction level event. Earth's population will decline by 99.9%. All knowledge discovered in the past 10,000 years will be lost…

However, before the apocalypse, a few far-sighted radicals construct an apocalypse-proof box, with space for all the knowledge of only one subject.

Their conundrum: which subject should they put in the box?

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