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Philosophers’ Carnival #169 « A Bag of Raisins
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A Bag of Raisins. Philosophers’ Carnival #169. Welcome to Installment #169 of the Philosophers’ Carnival. A monthly digest of substantive philosophy posts from around the blogosphere! Many thanks to Tristan Haze. For helpful suggestions of things to include. Janice Dowell posted an excerpt from Some thoughts on constructing and justifying semantic and metasemantic theories. Which I followed back to the full piece on Meena Krishnamurthy’s blog Philosop-her. On Wikipedia on Putnam. And about the failure of...
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Philosophy on Philosophy: Philosophers’ Carnival #153: Metaphilosophy
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A blog dedicated to the work of metaphilosophy and metaphilosophers. Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Philosophers’ Carnival #153: Metaphilosophy. I have two observations. One, Winter, despite its charms. Can bring a certain melancholy—there is even a psychological disorder. Associated with the season. Moreover, the end of the Winter term comes with its own kinds of stress. For student and professor alike. Thus, once Summer. 8217; is in the OED and ‘metaphilosophy’ is not. Moreover, while the IEP. Response to t...
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November « 2014 « A Bag of Raisins
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A Bag of Raisins. Monthly Archives: November 2014. Today’s raisins are poetic defenses of poetry. The first two are relics from early graduate school days I found this morning preparing to discuss poetry and philosophy; the third is an excerpt from Octavio Paz’. Identical Time ), as translated by Eliot Weinberger. I What are poets for? 8220;What are poets for. In a destitute time? 8220;Not for paying the rent,. That’s for damn sure. I had a poet. Dressed in black,. Fought with his girlfriend. 8220;No, sir.
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Philosophical Disquisitions: August 2015
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Things hid and barr'd from common sense. Sunday, August 30, 2015. Beginning to Exist and the Kalam Cosmological Argument. The Kalam Cosmological Argument (KCA) opens with the following premise:. 1) Whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence. Craig 2008, 111-112. Ie in the realm of space and time). It’s much less compelling when we are trying to consider how the universe itself came into being. When we reach that point, our everyday metaphysical intuitions could go out the window&...8217; In th...
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Philosophical Disquisitions: March 2015
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Things hid and barr'd from common sense. Sunday, March 22, 2015. God, Immortality and the Futility of Life. William Lane Craig has a pretty dispiriting take on the atheistic view of life:. If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? Craig 2008, 72. Craig’s Two Conditions for Meaning. Over the years, I have written several pieces. That call...
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Philosophical Disquisitions: How to Study Algorithms: Challenges and Methods
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Things hid and barr'd from common sense. Sunday, July 26, 2015. How to Study Algorithms: Challenges and Methods. The first problem is converting a task into a series of defined, logical steps; the second problem is converting that series of logical steps into computer code. This process is value-laden, open to bias and human error, and the ultimate consequences can be philosophically significant. I explained all these issues in a recent post. Nothing I say in this post is particularly ground-breaking....
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Gualtiero Piccinini: Physical Computation. Is Computation Abstract or Concrete? August 10, 2015. John Schwenkler kindly asked me to blog about my new book, Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account. I am grateful for the invitation. Models, AI, Robotics. Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science. April 4, 2014. You may (or may not) have noticed that Pete Mandik and Richard Brown (me). Have started a podcast, called SpaceTimeMind. The first episode is up now. In addition to being available on iTunes. Neurosci...
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