Monthly Archives: January 2012
Causality in the Press…& News!
So a friend sent this article from Wired.com yesterday. On the plus side, it’s fantastic whenever topics such as causality make it into the popular media. For one, it makes my job look at least somewhat sexier and seemingly somewhat … Continue reading
Filed under Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Science, Site News
Does The Oldest Temple Topple Evolutionists' History of Religion?
Reblogged from EvoAnth: Ordinarily I give posts from the Institute of Creation Research (ICR) a wide birth because there is already a fine blog dedicated to commenting on what they have to say. Their latest post, however, requires comment. Mostly … Continue reading
Darwin’s One Long Argument
My post the other day on the final passage in The Origin got me thinking about how amazing that book really is.Michael Ruse and some others have argued that The Origin is one long argument…one long 459pp. argument. While I … Continue reading
Bertrand Russell: The Three Passions
In my study I have a portrait of Bertrand Russell over the fire place. There is a paper he signed framed with the portrait that he hand wrote, which simply states: “Remember your humanity and forget the rest.” I often … Continue reading
Filed under Academia, Analytic, Bertrand Russell, History, Intellectual, Literature, Meaning of Life, Philosophy, Uncategorized
Robustness and Climate Science
This is a nice video of Michael Mann (the guy who developed the horrifying “hockeystick” graph) discussing climate change. I wanted to point out two things in this post. First, the major climate models in use today are open source; … Continue reading
Filed under Climate science, Mathematics, Physics, Science
Philosophy as Universal Science
Is Philosophy as Science Really Possible? Few continental philosophers ever took up Husserl’s notion of philosophy as a rigorous science. And even fewer analytic philosophers, since it was William James that was responsible for Husserl’s work not being published until … Continue reading
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Philosophy as Universal Science
The Appearance of a Thing is the Existence of a Thing Now the idea Husserl had in mind was that we could have a systematic philosophy that was not scholastic metaphysics or Hegelian dialectical metaphysics or anything of the kind. … Continue reading
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Philosophy as Universal Science
Husserl’s Transcendental Philosophical Science: Rejecting the Metaphysics of Modern Philosophy From Descartes to Hegel, systematic philosophy was primarily an epistemological project determined to unify knowledge upon a theoretical foundation of first principles (empirical, rational, or critical) with the end purpose … Continue reading
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Philosophy as Universal Science
What Happened to Systematic Philosophy? The virtues of systematic philosophy have never been rehabilitated into contemporary research. In some part this has simply been a matter of intellectual divisions of philosophical labor, maturing and developing within a crescendo of emerging … Continue reading
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…from so simple a beginning
Ok, so this post isn’t “really” about science or philosophy so much as it is about a scientist. That counts, right? In any case, Darwin is one of the great minds of the ages and, even more importantly, he cuts … Continue reading
Filed under Biology, History, Science, Uncategorized
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