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The Moxie Files: Nuked at Age Six
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8212; — — — — — — On the Improbability of Reflective Equilibrium — — — — — — —. Nuked at Age Six. Nuked at Age Six. Nuked at Age Six - Yeehah! How I Got to PHI School. Cassirer's Influence on Me. Normally I am reluctant to share personal details. Unlike most blogs, "Moxie Files" was not conceived as a navel-gazing diary. So I have set up this space to overcome my reticence while explaining, on occasion, what brings me to think as I do. NUKED AT AGE SIX — YEEHAH! Sputnik had just gone into space in 1957&#...
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Language, Life and Logic: On reasonableness
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Language, Life and Logic. Tuesday, August 30, 2016. Most people don't like being told what they should do or how they should think. Moralizing, in particular, gets under people's skin. In a recent piece. At The Electric Agora, Daniel Kaufman makes the very plausible point that overuse of terms like 'should', far from encouraging people to act in a certain way, often only encourages them to 'hunker down' or become defiant. And if you are giving a good enough impression of reasonableness then you are ̵...
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Language, Life and Logic: September 2016
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Language, Life and Logic. Tuesday, September 27, 2016. The trivial isn't necessarily trivial. Recently posted to my Google collection, Language, Logic, Life. At about eleven o'clock the next morning [Leamas] decided to go out for a walk along the front, bought some cigarettes and stared dully at the sea. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Language, Logic, Life (my main Google Collection). The Decline of the West (Google Collection). Conservative Tendency (my other blog). Contact me via email.
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The Moxie Files: The Illogic of Immortality
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8212; — — — — — — On the Improbability of Reflective Equilibrium — — — — — — —. Nuked at Age Six. The Illogic of Immortality. Some scientists believe human immortality is achievable and ought to be pursued. A few of them claim it is illogical to do otherwise, and that anyone who opposes the idea essentially prefers death over survival. A common line of argument is that people who don't think immortality is a good idea actually are afraid of living forever. This emphasis on the individual is then scaled up.
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Reflections on the skeptic and atheist movements – Scientia Salon
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Philosophy, Science, and all interesting things in between. Reflections on the skeptic and atheist movements. Reflections on the skeptic and atheist movements. May 11, 2015. Bull; ( 202. Groucho Marx, one of my favorite comedians of all time, famously wrote a telegram to a Hollywood club he had joined, that said: Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member. [1]. As a result, I first ended my long running (14 years! My disengagement has been gradual and...
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The Moxie Files: Detours
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8212; — — — — — — On the Improbability of Reflective Equilibrium — — — — — — —. Nuked at Age Six. Off-topic posts about whatever, sword in hand. Another box of stuff? Jiminy crickets, man! Not in the Ten Commandments. In Praise of a $1 Book. More Prepared for War Than Peace. Existence Without Essence is Nothing. I get a kick out of the names of old TV soap operas. As the World Turns. The classic, seems like a one-line poem of existential ennui. Edge of Night. Sounds like narcissism glorified. Creation an...
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Language, Life and Logic: Brutal reality?
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Language, Life and Logic. Thursday, October 27, 2016. Recently posted to my Google collection Language, Logic, Life. Dan Kaufman recently got a bit of flak (even from his wife apparently) for his energetic critique. Of the new – or continuing – 'cult of the self'. He is saying that the older movements did not really disguise their egoistic nature whereas more recent iterations – while still basically egoistic – present themselves as being driven by humane motives. I commented (in part) as follows:. 8211;...
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Language, Life and Logic: Richard Dawkins on David Berlinski
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Language, Life and Logic. Friday, June 1, 2012. Richard Dawkins on David Berlinski. I may have more to say on the strange case of David Berlinski and his religious beliefs or lack thereof in the future, not just because he is a fascinating character but also because such cases highly intelligent people who seem to espouse a heterodox religious outlook can sometimes challenge those of us who see ourselves as physicalists in a way more mundane believers cannot. By way of background, this piece. Dawkins...
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Language, Life and Logic: Williams syndrome, language and the brain
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Language, Life and Logic. Monday, November 5, 2012. Williams syndrome, language and the brain. In recent posts I have made a number of claims about language and the brain. Allow me to clarify and develop a couple of points. I don't really want to buy into the debate about various versions of modularity or other theories of mental functioning. For one thing, I don't know the science well enough. I don't have a theory, but I don't know that I need one either. On the positive side, they often have an affini...
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Language, Life and Logic: Another case of magical thinking: Albert Einstein
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Language, Life and Logic. Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Another case of magical thinking: Albert Einstein. That Kurt Gödel's general outlook (especially his conviction that everything happened for a reason) fits Matthew Hutson's notion of magical thinking, I want to suggest that Gödel's friend, Albert Einstein, may in fact have had very similar ideas. The best assessment I know of what Einstein believed is an essay by Gerald Holton. Holton a physicist with an intimate knowledge of Einstein's writings, i...
