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“Con te Partiro” opens up the ears in the morning alright.

Excellent! A hidden gem.

Living in Italy has its advantages. She's all over the waves here... I posted about her as a response to your posting Zuchero. She's been in that leag...

This text is a pleasure to read. Elegant, amusing and precise. Seems like the writings of a true gentleman. Excellent rule.

Can't get enough of Malika Ayane. Adesso e qui (nostalgico presente) (live unplugged) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mGnt2wkEiEc

Not just talking of those writing books. I'm just describing the approachable, passionate scientist type.

There are many marvelous scientists who do a great job, and often manage to share the results of their work with much passion, because they care, but ...

More Celtic? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_lm6g6EFrxg

LOL Okay, German? (This is my last try)

You a Scot? :-)

Yes, it was well made. Balanced, inquisitive but sympathetic, and with some pace and flow in providing a broad overview.

Where are you from Amity? Now for something lighter, though still surprisingly philosophical. A Storm If you catch yourself laughing Only you know why...

Thanks for Juliette. She passed away recently. One last piano piece, and then I promise something more joyous. One of Those - Benabar Here, what are y...

Thanks, it means much to me. It is a beautiful song. Et tant pis pour vos fesses = too bad for your ass It is tender but also cruel, or rather, real. ...

I hate the world today You're so good to me I know but I can't change Tried to tell you But you look at me like maybe I'm an angel underneath Innocent...

Isn't science precisely that combination of empiricism and rationalism?

BTW, this ABC podcast provides an interesting overview of Collingwood's life and thought.

Indeed, one could even say that people are easier to understand and predict by other people than, say, electrons. This being said, people can also dis...

That's a good point: we can never know the consequences of our actions in advance, yet people have to make choices in real time. And they ask themselv...

I suppose you've never found a baby abandoned in a trash dump. These things are rare nowadays, though they still happen. Back in the days of the Roman...

I agree with that.

Another way of saying the same thing, no? Unfortunately I don't speak their language. :-) As you must be aware of, many people do not know what a prim...

If we cannot determine the future, the future remains indertermined, at least by us. Whether somebody else, like God, can determine it is immaterial t...

Sure, keep fantasizing that you too could have written Critique of Pure Reason. I could have painted like Picasso too but I went into accounting inste...

Been chewing on this. True that epiphenomena are conceived as fundamentally different from phenomena, like two different substances. So I agree with y...

That's speculative. Most scientists don't try and think too hard, in my experience. Glorified lab technicians. A lot of them have no clue why they do ...

Note that it is a metaphysical question. And yet there are generations of scientists who fetishized determinism, and still today, more than a hundred ...

Octopuses and cuttlefish can count. I guess they would agree with me that numbers aren't that complicated. To each his capacity for abstraction. I sup...

Actually they do, but believers still believe! Gods forbid! Emergentist, if that's a word

That is correct. No scientist is going to prove to you in a lab whether or not you should dump a baby in the trash. It's not a scientific question but...

There is no evidence we should care for babies though, that much is true. We do it for other reasons than strictly material. And therefore, not all so...

Of course they are. You're beating around the bush.

Some say nothing.

Some social constructs may be based on insufficient empirical evidence but it does not make them total nonsense. They mean something to people. For in...

I get to the same conclusion wherever I start: epiphenomenalism is for the epiphenomenal among us, those of us who have no impact on anything whatsoev...

If you want to do philosophy, you have to use concepts. A philosopher who thinks that "concept" is a controversial concept is like a plumber who is no...

If epiphenomenalism is true, then epiphenomenalism is an epiphenomenon.

That is the first option: the attempt to makes sense of social constructs (or mental processes) is potentially useful because social constructs (or me...

That was never the question, to my knowledge. The question was: do philosophers influence scientists. The response is yes, they do. A lot.

Sure, I'm interested. Grateful for being introduced to Collingwood, had never heard of him but I like what I read so far. He is very readable.

I agree, but it goes both ways: the state of my mind also determines what I will physically do, like when one decides to do or write something.

There is a difference between historicism (the idea that history follows determinist laws à la Marx) and recognizing established historical facts. Tha...

Well, glad that's clarified. Come to think of it, the original metaphor was made here: The killer blow is that: IF the study of social constructs conc...

We can stipulate in the code (or add in some parallel code) one or several reporting routines that regularly outputs a certain data set, following cer...

It's a historical fact. You should study history of science, it's fascinating.

Go back to Hacker's quote. This idea that numbers are some sort of magical thing that defies typologies is just absurd. It's all part of the pretense ...

Science is indeed a by-product of philosophy.

Climate change is the direct consequence of the industrial revolution, itself made possible by scientific, technological and economic developments, a ...

This applies to any concept, not just numbers, and thus it is irrelevant to the point I am making about Hacker's quote. To ask what sort of entity is ...

The separation from what?