Category: philosophy
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Investigations into the Applicability of Geometry
Quotes from Marshall – Investigations into the Applicability of Geometry. Abstract. Challenging the Applicability of Geometry. Aristotle. Galileo. Leibniz. Geometry and Nature.
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DNA to represent proteins
Using van Fraassen’s approach to representation to analyze a paper – Barbieri, Is the cell a semiotic system?
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Bas C van Fraassen: Scientific Representation
Quotes from Scientific Representation and from The Empirical Stance. Rainbow as Public Hallucinations. Self-ascription and Perfect Model Model. Does the World exist? God is Dead.
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Aping Mankind
Citations from Tallis – Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity. Aristotle: Brain to Cool the Blood. Religion and Biologism. Surroundedness of an Organism.
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Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics
Galen Strawson, Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics From Section 1.7 Thing, object p. 11 “For the moment, though, the brief is to show that selves exist, and that they’re things or objects or ‘substances’ of some sort, and hence, given materialism, physical objects. One possibility is that there are in fact no better candidates…
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Geoffrey Gorham: Philosophy of Science
Comments on the book. Quotes from Feyerabend. Einstein on Time. Quotes from Jim Holt, Time bandits. Astrology as Science: Mars Effect.
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Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead
My thoughts after reading The Grand Design by Hawking and Mlodinow.
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From Boltzmann’s fluctuation hypothesis to Boltzmann’s Brain
Quotes from Huw Price – The Thermodynamic Arrow: Puzzles and Pseudo-Puzzles. Also from Sean Carroll – Boltzmann Anthropic Brain.