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COMP Theology

February 22, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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Messages from the everthing list http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/2b92d17d59aaa178 19.02.2012 15:52 Bruno Marchal:  I don’t remember having said that to Craig. On the contrary I criticize him for introducing a new word without ever defining it. But “theology” means “Study of Gods” like biology is study of life. It is a simple word that everyone can understand, and [...]

Absolute Presupposition

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In his lectures Was ist Philosophie? http://www.podcasts.uni-freiburg.de/podcast_content?id_content=80 Prof Hoenen has discussed R. G. Collingwood and his work Essay on Methaphysics. I like here a lot the term Absolute Presupposition. From Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/collingwood/ “From the mid-thirties onwards Collingwood’s work increasingly engaged in a dialogue with the newly emerging school of analytic philosophy. In An [...]

Reason, Free Will, and the Big Bang

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I have recently listened to Kontroversen in der Philosophie by Prof Hoenen: http://www.podcasts.uni-freiburg.de/podcast_content?id_content=93 One of the controversies there was the question whether the Universe if eternal or not. Recently I have employed the logic from the lectures on the everything list http://groups.google.com/group/t/thread/ba5f90b7e68bccf when there was a comment about determinism. I hope that the dialog below shows [...]

The Making of a World View

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In Die Zeit there was a paper Das Making-of eines Weltbildes http://www.zeit.de/2011/34/Experiment-Physik-Philosophie “A philosopher observes a physicist  in the search for knowledge – and a journalist does the philosopher. An experiment.” A books has been mentioned where there is a sociological study on how physicists and molecular biologists make science: Karin Knorr Cetina Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make [...]

Theorien der Wahrheit

January 8, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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I have finished listening the course of Prof Hoenen Theorien der Wahrheit: http://www.podcasts.uni-freiburg.de/podcast_content?id_content=23 Slides: http://www.philosophie.uni-freiburg.de/seminar/lehrstuhl_hoenen/materialien/materialien-zur-vorlesung/files/vlws0809-theorien-der-wahrheit.pdf The course is made by discussing the next texts: Aristoteles, Metaphysik Bertrand Russell, Wahrheit und Falschheit Anselm von Canterbury, Über die Wahrheit Gottlob Frege, Logische Untersuchungen G. W. Leibnitz, Fünf Schriften zur Logik und Metaphysik A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic [...]

Feyerabend against Science

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In his lectures Theorien der Wahrheit http://www.podcasts.uni-freiburg.de/podcast_content?id_content=23 Prof Hoenen has considered also Science in a Free Society (Erkenntnis für freie Menschen) by Paul Feyerabend. I got interested as I like Feyerabend. I have found that one of the latest Feyerabend’s book was The Tyranny of Science  and I have found in Internet a text Paul [...]

Self-driving cars

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A message to the everything-list. I have attended a class Introduction to AI http://www.ai-class.com and there are two interesting videos from it about self-driving cars: Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_BJUBpuvFE Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqDvbguZsAA I have no idea if this are Lobian machines or not (such a term has not been mentioned in the class, it looks like [...]

Dualism? Yes!

September 10, 2011 by · 2 Comments
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A few quotes from Stephen P. King http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/msg/bca0e3f2e9c4416f I was asking if substance dualism is the only type of dualism. The answer is no. Much has been written on the subject. For example see:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/     My argument is against the assumption of substance in all of its forms. The fact that Descartes’ version of [...]

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