Indeed. I had just finished reading this piece a couple hours ago, and you just provided what seems to me a very nice and accurate summary of his (or ...
fdrake commented to me (privately): Agreed, however this characterizes mathematically the duality of conjugate variables in quantum mechanics without ...
It may be a bit biased in favor of Graeber's view, though (I had inserted an emoji here and the interface deleted the rest of my message) Thanks to en...
If I am to believe the Wikipedia entry on Model-dependent realism, it rather looks like a half-baked mixture of pragmatism and Popperian falsification...
Rovelli's paper on relational quantum mechanics is available here. He also discusses his idea of relationality in non technical terms in his popular b...
I've been following this thread with interest over the last few days, and read most of the messages. I've only been lurking because I've been quite bu...
I hear you. For each item that I read, ten more join my reading list. (I've learned in my probability theory class, though, that there is a way to add...
Thanks for drawing my attention to Graeber. If you've enjoyed Diamond's anthropological work (I've only read Guns, Germs and Steel, and maybe a couple...
I much enjoyed Haack's paper Just Say 'No' to Logical Negativism. I share her profound dissatisfaction with Popper's falsificationism. She seems to ha...
While that clearly isn't ad hominem, and it may also have some inductive validity, it is deductively invalid. Benkei may have meant the first premise ...
The main rationale for denying to mentally incapacitated individuals the right to represent themselves legally, or administratively, seems to be to pr...
I concur very strongly, as Trump would say. I've recently argued with some of my friends about what seems to be the damaging effect of the hegemony of...
Proper time isn't perspectival, though, is it? This is the idea of the absolute duration of a localized process, as measured by a standard clock that ...
Yes, indeed, one ought to focus on events. To say of the moving pole that, at one moment, as measured in the reference frame where the barn is at rest...
I'm indeed reassured to hear that. The two papers by Glymour that I referenced are now 20 years old. Maybe political scientists and psychometricians p...
Agreed. Since there has been such a revival of Aristotelian virtue ethics in contemporary analytic philosophy, thanks in part to Elizabeth Anscombe, P...
Yes, it's true that there exists such an vast body of literature. (Heritability of g over 85% seems to be an outlier, though). It's also true that mos...
Yes, that seems to be a reasonable requirement in order to prevent the discussion from going off the rails. I have read this whole thread obliquely an...
I recently read an excellent paper(*) by Clark Glymour, and reread another one(**), regarding the widespread misuse of factor analysis and multiple re...
Back to Peterson and white privilege... I thought some of you might be interested with those two recent pieces about Peterson, the first one by Žižek:...
I am very familiar with the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Several years ago I was very much involved in online fora discussing 9/11 conspir...
Look up the NIST report devoted specifically to WTC7. WTC7 had a very peculiar structure, owing to its having been built on top of a preexisting Con-E...
The existence of Big Foot indeed may have the most circumstantial evidence going for it. One piece of circumstantial evidence that is almost decisive ...
Welcome to the forum, Gerald the 47th, Your very first post is one of the best things that I have read here since I joined. I hope you'll stick around...
Selecting only three would be tough but I'll limit myself to the five items that I judged to be outstanding. As you may guess, I've been quite impress...
This seems to be happening occasionally. It looks like an 'end of page' related bug. When it occurs and I want to see the last message that was posted...
Here are also most of my readings from last year, since February 2017 when I began reading and annotating pdf files mostly on my smartphone : 2017 Dec...
A few interesting things that I am reading or have read this year. Sorry for the bad formatting of references; this is copied from a wikidPad page ('p...
Your response isn't redundant but it's broadly compatible with the conception that I am advocating, which portrays 'reactive attitudes' broadly constr...
I didn't mean to rule out compatibilism. Quite the contrary, I meant to point out that bahman's definition was too strict to accommodate many common c...
For sure, but, as I had attempted to stress, the relevant compatibilist idea of a constraint on free will is much more restricted than the idea appeal...
The issue that I brought up concerns a conundrum regarding the ascription of moral praiseworthiness to the action of an agent. This connects to the to...
This rather amounts to asking if our being less rationally or morally fallible would make us more or less free. I don't think there is a categorical a...
Yes, I think a confusion over the concept of a constraint, such that it is viewed as a mere restriction or impediment on the exercise of free agency (...
This is a rather contentious definition of free will. It certainly doesn't fit the conceptions of compatibilists. I don't think even most libertarian ...
Rape statistics can be misleading when comparing Sweden with other countries. The prevalence is 60 reported rapes per 100,000 population, compared to ...
They don't because they're equations of physics and not biology. But they do tell you how much time will be elapsed on Earth, and on the ship, as meas...
So, you are making use of the equations of the General Theory of Relativity? Those equations are Einstein's field equations. They will tell you how to...
What equations are you talking about? Are you making any use at all of the Lorentz transformations (as you should?) In that case you surely should be ...
Actually, I remember reading that Einstein had come to have some misgivings about his theory being named "Theory of Relativity". He thought this was u...
I browsed this thread rather quickly. It seems not to have occurred to many participants that the Lorentz transformations from which time dilation, sp...
This is a fantastic introduction to John McDowell's thought. Maximilian de Gaynesford also wrote such an introduction, which is quite good though not ...
Gulag Archipelago is autobiographical, of course, and very good. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is awesome. You might enjoy Cancer Ward, also,...
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