Category: philosophy
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Quantum Leap from Physics to Psychology
A quote from Karl H Pribram, The Form Within: My Point of View p. 514 “The revolution in science inaugurated by quantum physics made us aware, as never before, of taking into consideration the role of observation and measurement in the construction of data. A personal experience illuminates the extent of this revolution. Eugene Wigner…
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David Bohm on Free Will
Quotes from David Bohm, Thought as a System p. 72 “We have to be able to think on this clearly; even though, as I said, that by itself won’t really change the reflexes. But if we don’t think of it clearly then all our attempts to get into this will go wrong. Clear thinking implies…
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How Descartes died
Quote from John Deely, Four Ages of Understanding: The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century p. 511-512 “The most famous adage of modern philosophy, perhaps of all philosophy, comes from Descartes: ‘Cogito ergo sum’, ‘I think therefore I am’. There is a tale told – I…
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Peirce on existence and reality
In Cornelis de Waal, Peirce: A Guide for the Perplexed, it was written that Peirce has distinguished between real and existing. On biosemiotics list, Gary Richmond has recommended Kelly Parker’s, The Continuity of Peirce’s Thought on this subject. He has also quoted Peirce: “[. . .] I call your attention to the fact that reality…
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Tim Maudlin on Metaphysics
Quotes from Tim Maudlin, The Metaphysics Within Physics p. 78 “Kant, for example, maintained that metaphysics must be a body of necessary truths, and that necessary truths must be a priori, so metaphysical claims could not be justified by experience.” p. 78 “The Kantian strains survives yet in the notion that the proper object of…
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Prigogine: The new alliance
I. Prigogine and I. Stengers, The new alliance, Scientia 112 (1977) Part One – From Dynamics to Thermodynamics: Physics, the Gradual Opening towards the World of Natural Processes, 319-332. Part Two – An Extended Dynamics: towards a Human Science of Nature, 643-653. I like the beginning of the first part where the problem is formulated…
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Christian Roots of Modern Science
From my discussion. 15.04.2013 19:47 The modern science seems to have strong roots in Christianity. You may want to look at Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World The book nicely shows that god has played the crucial role in the scientific revolution of the…
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Peirce on Mind and Matter
Peirce’s quote that I have found in Science Delusion by Rupert Sheldrake: “Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of this habits is very difficult.” Below is another quote given by Søren Brier on the biosemiotics list: “But what is to be said of the property…