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How To Be A Skeptical Empiricist In One Easy Lesson
Amateur Asset Allocator | December 4th 2009 by Kyle
I consider myself to be a skeptical empiricist, a philosophical position that’s often misunderstood. Common labels for skeptical empiricists for those not in the know are pessimist, doubter, denier, and even know-it-all (this last one tends read more
Traditional Religion, Science, and the Search for Meaning
Joemar Taganna Blog | November 27th 2009 by joemar
It seems that humans are hardwired to make some sense of life or to have some meaning. Science and religion both agree on this goal, which is to come up with meaningful models to understand everything. These two spheres of human exploration fulfill o read more
Review of The Lost World Of Genesis One, Part Eighteen
Exploring Our Matrix | November 19th 2009 by James McGrath
Proposition eighteen of John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis One takes the stance that science education should be neutral when it comes to questions of purpose. A science course should by its very definition "discuss material origins from the per read more
Reason, Senses, and Revelation
New Leaven | October 4th 2009 by tc robinson
So Rationalism, knowledge through reason, failed as a complete epistemology. Empiricism, knowledge through the senses, likewise, was tried, weighed, and found wanting. They both, however, contribute to our epistemology, our knowledge of reali read more
Does This Put Faith In Its Place?
Faith Interface | October 1st 2009 by Faith Interface
The following video was posted recently on the Faith Interface Facebook page by a regular discussion participant. Presumably, this fellow, an agreeable atheist chap from the United Kingdom, feels that this video provides a good summary of the atheist read more
Deleuze – Empiricism and Subjectivity
Spectropoetics | September 26th 2009 by G
WE DREAM SOMETIMES of a history of philosophy that would list only the new concepts created by a great philosopher—his most essential and creative contribution. T read more
Deleuze – Difference and Repetition
Spectropoetics | September 26th 2009 by G
Repetition and generality: first distinction from the point of view of conduct — The two orders of generality: resemblance and equality — Second distinction, from the point of view of law read more
Hume – Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Spectropoetics | September 16th 2009 by G
It has been remarked that though the ancient philosophers mostly taught through dialogues, the dialogue form hasn’t been much used in recent times, and has seldom succeeded when people have tried it. •There is a good reason for thi read more
National Affairs Magazine
Blogfornoob Dot Com | September 8th 2009 by geoffrey
National Affairs Magazine National Affairs Magazine:Two Bangladeshi papers have been forced to apologise after publishing a story taken from satirical US website The Onion that claimed Neil Armstrong’s 1969 Moon landing was faked. The satirical ar read more
New Theory on Blink, Psychics, and Dream Interpretation
Mel Does Grad School | August 9th 2009 by Mel
"Intuition strikes me as a concept we use to describe emotional reactions, gut feelings--thoughts and impressions that don't seem entirely rational. But I think that what goes on in that first two seconds is perfectly rational. It's thinking--its jus read more
The Sentiments Trap
A Skeptic's Creed | June 7th 2009 by Robert Kirkman
Teaching environmental ethics this summer, I've found a new wrinkle in an old argument.In a number of early articles in defense of Aldo Leopold's land ethic, the philosopher J. Baird Callicott appeals to a theory of moral sentiments to connect facts read more
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