Why? Pythagoras was the mathematical reductionist par excellence. It is not for nothing that the notion that 'everything is number' is chiefly associa...
It's not out of the question. That said, one of the ironies of your opposition to the OP is that the anti-Pythagorian thrust of the paper goes hand-in...
The conclusion to be drawn is not that mathematics is useless or somesuch; only that one should engage in mathematics without the (unscientific) assum...
One of my great regrets in life is not picking up his The Degrees of Knowledge at a second hand bookshop once. I really want to read him one day. *sig...
Chiming in to agree with Luke here. The point of the beetle-box story is not that, if only the beetle really was in the box, that the word would make ...
I always thought it was quite clear the Cic had a kind of pathological/sado-masochistic relationship to Heidegger, enjoying quite immensly his bad-fai...
There are only 10 books (or 'chapters', if you prefer) in The Republic. It doesn't go to 16 in the copies I'm aware of. What are you referring to? In ...
This is a really interesting paper btw. Rosen actually drew a parallel between C-T and Godel as well, some time back: "What we today call Church’s The...
It's also worth checking out the work of Robert Rosen, who showed quite definitely that the C-T thesis can hold for physical systems only under very s...
It's not entirely fair to compare dinosaurs - an entire taxonomic order - with humans, a mere species. One fun fact that often goes unrecognized is th...
Yeah, this all seems right to me. One way in which I would extend this though, is to attend to Witty's focus on grammar as a constraint with respect t...
The philosophers of science, Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour, have long been writing about the insufficiency of the Milgram 'experiments' - which t...
Ah, I understand 'use' differently from you I think; all the cases of 'pain' I briefly profiled count as 'uses', and none of them are either 'correct'...
I think you'll find the POP alot less difficult than it's reputation might suggest. It's certainly far easier reading than Heidegger, and while a ligh...
If you want to read Merleau-Ponty on art, I suggest his essay "Eye and Mind", which I think you should be able to find online. It's an absolutely brea...
I'm not sure what 'correctly' means in this context. All the uses of 'pain' I sketched could be said to be 'correct' if generalizable ('publicizable')...
One thing that might be useful to add to this discussion is the importance of inference-making. I mean one way - perhaps the only way - to 'coordinate...
My only worry about this kind of approach is that it defines the relation between science and philosophy negatively: the one is not the other. I think...
I'm somewhat familiar with Whitehead, more through secondary readings than any actual engagement with his own work. His vocabulary is forebording thou...
That's a good point actually, and now that I'm thinking about it, it's not by accident that I'm avoiding 'knowledge' here. As far as it goes, I'm a bi...
I don't think I would say 'without concepts' though; I think philosophy is inseparable from - and perhaps defined by - conceptual activity (hence Adon...
Actually I think speciation is an excellent model of individuation that ought to be generalized - with the appropriate caveats - where possible. After...
Perhaps not necessarily, but in this particular context, it would be an inadequate account of individuation if the question of 'why this individual an...
When environment alters genetics!: "About 5,000 to 7,000 years ago the number of men having children fell dramatically—possibly by as much as 95 perce...
Yes, but then, the question is really: how best to conceive concepts? (Was it you who asked for clarification re: the appended quote from Adorno?; if ...
Not really, because it's not perception that's at stake so much as conception. As others have pointed out, 'see' is just being used as a privileged me...
There've been few philosophers who have so vehemently rejected the idea of the 'thing-in-itself' as much Nietzsche, so no, it's definitely not. Nietzs...
One interesting thing I find with the approach in the OP is that the viewpoint of the Nietzschean would-be God is subtractive, not additive: that is, ...
That was a cool paper. I'm all aboard the 'difference precedes identity' train so it's good to see a close textual analysis of the varying instances o...
To speak a little abstractly, one of the problems I have with 'seeing everything' is that 'everything' strikes me as too subsumptive, as though 'every...
One idea I've been interested in for a while is that of higher-dimensional langauges: most languages are essentially two-dimensional linear scripts, a...
It sounds boring but I think one of the defining marks of a more intelligent species would be a far more complex and interesting grammar (The movie Ar...
One of the cool things about the idea of adjacent possible is precisely that it actually has been already taken up in contexts outside the biological:...
Clearly it wasn't. In any case the "dreams of possibilities" have nothing to do with possibility as a modality. One can dream all one likes. To confus...
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