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Clancy on Philosophy
http://clancy-on-philosophy.blogspot.com/
This is a blog about philosophy, both contemporary and historical. It contains a lot of my own ideas on philosophy in the form of short essays. But it also contains interesting aspects of philosophical topics and philosophers.
- Added on: Oct 18th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Thomas J. Clancy
- Listed in: Philosophy Education & Learning
- Tags: science philosophy idea logic mind essay
Recent Posts
Reading, Writing, Thinking: Just Selfish Means of Survival?
The other day I was thinking to myself in one of my many imagined conversations with someone (could be anyone, really; a colleague, the wooden head, my alter ego, whomever or whatever), that the act of reading is an act of creativity, almost brutal i...
The Evolution of the Sense of Touch: Questions, Ideas, Etc.
The sense of touch has with it two aspects that I understand… the sense of texture and hardness, and the sense of temperature. Perhaps there are other aspects… pain? I relegate this to both texture/hardness and temperature. Now, what if it were p...
Music to a Deaf Man
If I were born deaf, I would never understand sound, or music. I might be able to understand it inasmuch as vibration, for if someone were to strike the strings of a guitar I could see the vibration of the strings and I could place my hand on the woo...
Thoughts on Active Reading and the Lure of Insanity
Reading by itself, I don’t think, is sufficient enough to build the vocabulary and expand the mind and the intellect and the mental processes, not even the active reading that Adler recommends in his book on reading. I think it takes not only activ...
Philosophy of Mind and Neuronal Configurations
I’ve been reading more about the Philosophy of Mind. Although its odd that I cannot discuss it here. I am getting from it now that like a computer, the processing of language or symbols, etc., cannot be observed in the brain, but through brain ch...
What is Truth
Proposition: "George W. Bush is president of the United States of America." This is a statement of truth, but is it not a relative truth? That is, we can believe that in 10 years, for instance, he will not be the President of the United States o...
