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The main activity of the association consists of disorganised rambles along established philosophical pathways. The association aims to traverse all such pathways at least once a year. The rambles consist...
The Philosophical Ramblers Association | Posted by joh at 01:55 PM on November 12, 2003
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Yet recent work on visual integration and change detection reveals that we are surprisingly unaware of the details of our environment from one view to the next: we often do...
I see no gorilla | Posted by joh at 04:30 PM on November 03, 2003
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Doubting that I could withstand this ordeal alone, and not wanting to renege on a promise, I invited Tad S. Clements, a friend of mine and a retired professor of...
A Wise Professor of Ethics | Posted by joh at 04:41 PM on October 28, 2003
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Randomly arranging borrowed phrases and sentence structures from Nietzsche’s famous and often ridiculous aphorisms, the new works of Friedrich Nietzsche are created at the touch of a button. Explore The...
The Existentialism of Randomness | Posted by joh at 08:29 AM on October 01, 2003
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The Modern period was not misnamed. True, the ordinary word "modern" is associated with "new" and "now", but the historical period we call Modern chose to associate itself with the...
Tsall Good | Posted by joh at 11:19 PM on September 08, 2003
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There are those who say that science does not need models - such as the wave and particle models of light - but simply sound theories, rules and formulas that...
Systems of Metaphor | Posted by joh at 09:35 PM on September 04, 2003
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None of the gods love wisdom or desire to become wise, for they are wise already -- nor if someone else is wise, do they love wisdom. Plato, Symposium 203E-204A...
Oh God | Posted by joh at 09:07 PM on September 04, 2003
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Why is there a philosophical problem about self-deception? It lies in the apparent paradox that deceiver and deceived are the same. Deception seems logically to require that deceiver and deceived...
Self-Deceived | Posted by joh at 12:32 PM on September 01, 2003
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So we have the paradox that over the period when our brain was growing most rapidly, our material cultural development, as measured by stone tools, advanced only marginally; then, over...
Shrinking Brains | Posted by joh at 05:55 PM on August 12, 2003
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But self-organizing, nonlinear, feedback systems are inherently unpredictable. They are not controllable. They are understandable only in the most general way. The goal of foreseeing the future exactly and preparing...
Dancing systems | Posted by joh at 07:40 AM on August 12, 2003
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That is not to say that British philosophy is one big happy family. By far the greatest division remains that between departments specializing in "Continental" philosophy, which for the past...
Philosophical Divide | Posted by joh at 04:55 PM on August 05, 2003
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Daniel H. Cohen, 'What Would Happen if I Did a Thought Experiment Alone in the Woods and No One was There to Respond?' Possibly the best rhetoric paper title I...
Thought Experimentation | Posted by joh at 04:31 PM on August 03, 2003
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Although I will never be able to talk about brain worms in a lighthearted sense ever again, I think I can still talk about spicy-brain-mapping (via Des). There you go...
Brains n Stuff | Posted by joh at 08:15 AM on July 28, 2003
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ARGUMENT FROM UNINTELLIGENCE (1) Okay, I don't pretend to be as intelligent as you guys -- you're obviously very well read. But I read the Bible, and nothing you say...
Maranathra! | Posted by joh at 02:15 PM on July 24, 2003
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7.3 Functorial method A lion is not dangerous unless he is somewhat gory. Thus the lion is a category. If he is a small category then he is a kittygory...
kittygory | Posted by joh at 01:13 AM on July 12, 2003
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