Category: philosophy
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Experimental Method and God’s Voluntarism
From Nancy Pearcey, Charles Thaxton, The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy p. 19 “In 1277 Etienne Tempier, Bishop of Paris, issued a condemnation of several theses derived from Aristotelianism – that God could not allow any form of planetary motion other than circular, that He could not make a vacuum, and many…
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Three Worlds by Karl Popper
Quotes from Three Worlds, Karl Popper The Tanner Lecture On Human Values Delivered at The University of Michigan, April 7, 1978 “In this lecture I intend to challenge those who uphold a monist or even a dualist view of the universe; and I will propose, instead, a pluralist view. I will propose a view of…
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Good vs. Bad Explanation
My comments on David Deutsch The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World http://groups.google.com/group/beginning-of-infinity/t/46016629f1e0fa32 18.05.2012 21:10: >Explaining that an idea is a bad explanation is a substantive criticism of that idea. First the last statement is just an exercise in rhetoric to demonstrate your intellectual superiority. Second, have you explained why my explanation was…
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Collingwood on Monotheism and Science
Maarten Hoenen in his fifth lecture on Voraussetzung und Vorurteil has mentioned that Collingwood once compared monotheism with polytheism in respect to influencing science. According to Collingwood, the modern reductionism (Theory of Everything) is similar to monotheism where everything should be explained through God. I like this thought and below there are some results from my…
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Two Mathematicians in a Bunker and Existence of Pi
Below there is a problem that I have formulated in order to understand better what is mathematics. There are two related dicussions: http://groups.google.com/group/embryophysics/t/419d3c1fec30e3b5 http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/b8d7efb597b2349a I will start first with the final version of the problem (Bruno’s comments were very helpful) and after that I will present my messages that led to the problem and the…
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Absolute Presupposition
In his lectures ‘Was ist Philosophie?’ 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: “From the mid-thirties onwards Collingwood’s work increasingly engaged in a dialogue with the newly emerging school of analytic philosophy. In An Essay on…
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Turing Test and Female Hormones
Quotes from Jaron Lanier on Turing Test from his book You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, 2010. From the chapter The Apple Falls Again. “The second thing to know about Turing is that he was gay at a time when it was illegal to be gay. British authorities, thinking they were doing the most compassionate…
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Reason, Free Will, and the Big Bang
I have recently listened to Kontroversen in der Philosophie by Prof Hoenen. 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 that…