A paper by Haris Shekeris on reductionism...
On FB, the good Elliot Bougis - who is of the Theistical stripe - recently remarked most wittily that “glorying in an immense body.... seems to be the gist of naturalism”. Setting aside the...
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This group was started to provide meaningful exchange between serious philosophers and researchers in other scientific fields (I actually managed to write that with a straight face). You'll...
11 December 2010 2,910 43 View
04.06.2010 "As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects...
05 June 2010 6,589 7 View
So, what is "truth" ? Anyone got any ideas ?
02 March 2010 4,128 36 View
The Master of Königsberg famously differentiated between what is given in perception by the senses (the "phenomenon") and the thing-in-itself, the Ding an sich (the "noumenon") – cf....
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[I know we shouldn't really cross-post; though I posted this in the "Bell" thread, I think it's perhaps worth reposting in a new "time and space" topic where we can thrash out the different terms...
31 December 2009 6,165 2 View
Can we - and should we -treat Mind as being primarily a "metaphysical puzzle"? If we do, should our primary domain of investigation be the relation between Mind and other "metaphysical puzzles" -...
31 December 2009 6,315 23 View
The difference between, for example, metaphysics and ethics is the difference between decidiing what "is" the case and deciding what "ought to be" the case. Imagine that John ought to be...
11 December 2009 1,954 87 View
Here's a characteristic Shekeris bombshell remark: "the same [that we have no reason for accepting epistemic justification by authority alone] could be said at least about science as an...
11 December 2009 8,260 25 View
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudophilosophy
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Fisher studied if there is an out-of-equilibrium process that rapidly converges to some equilibrium points. He claims that Hahn process has a Lyapounof function and therefore convergent to an...
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We assume that the cat in a box paradox may allow an additional approach to include multiple cats in the same box. We can now see two seemingly different views, quantum and classical. The...
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What are research philosophy and paradigm and importance of quantitative research in philosophy?
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Greetings mathematicians and physicists, As we know, the idea of assuming a higher space dimension than the natural 3 dimension is effective in solving many physical and mathematical...
29 June 2024 9,220 6 View
I inadvertently 'accepted' a specialisation in biology, but it was the wrong Richard McCullagh. I'm in Australia and he is in the USA. Can I delete that reference and enter 'philosophy of...
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Hi, I am doing a systematic literature review for my MPhil. Does anyone know what philosophy/research paradigm is a systematic review?
18 June 2024 9,525 1 View
Observing the launch of Special Issue(s) on various transdisciplinary research themes/topics, many potential authors/guest editors asked about names and websites of (i) international, (ii)...
05 June 2024 9,346 2 View
Dear fellow researchers, I'm working on my thesis and I need researches, papers, and published materials on the topic existentialism impact and website components animation, I welcome your...
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I think so because The Random Slate Theorem
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1. World Order has shown changes, especially after 2020 in almost all major fields of Politics, Economics, Social, Geopolitical etc. 2. Where the world order in real is diverting? 3. What will be...
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