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In Defence of Rationalism
Nirmukta.com | January 1st 2010 by Ajita Kamal
(This article was first published in the Souvenir brought out commemorating the 7th National Conference of Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations held in Chennai on 26 & 27 December 2009) What is Rationalism? In Epistemology (the branch o read more
The Quiet Return of Empiricism
RELATIVITY OnLine | January 1st 2010 by David Anthony Hohol
A world in financial crisis, global warming and an international food shortage many predict to become much worse in the coming years, has all resulted in a strange phenomenon. A planetary real estate boom is echoing across the open plains of developi read more
Practice # 127: Why I Am Not An Atheist
The Harried Mystic | December 23rd 2009 by Brother Anthony Thomas
The overall flaw both in this book and the interview, is the notion of Jewish & christian religious myth as "childish" magical thinking and built on beliefs that require an irrational or, at least, nonrational believer. What Epstein fails to do i read more
education means what?
Sun Tzu Says | December 14th 2009
PropagandaAwesome. Particularly applies to history (and to a lesser extent, the selection of literature for English). I think the one saving hallmark of the "debate" over evolution is that it brings this problem to the surface for discussion by requi read more
Letter from An Old Surgeon
The Quack Doctor | December 10th 2009 by Caroline Rance
A brief interlude from the usual style of post today, as I’m still attempting to erase the Yankee Rubber Baby from my brain. The following letter was printed in The Monthly Gazette of Health in June 1821. A surgeon, not the most modest fellow i read more
Danielle Smith: HERETIC!!!
Blogging Canadians | December 8th 2009 by Canadaka
Global warming unproven, Wildrose leader saysClimate Change is real. In the event of a discrepancy between empiricism and prior assumptions, data must conform to dogma, especially if one wishes to remain employed in the groupthink academic structures read more
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
Poor Credit Rating Loans – Best Remedy to Sort Out
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Poor Credit Rating Loans – Best Remedy to Sort Out Monetary Crunches If your financial station are signal cover certain bad credit factors agnate bankruptcy, arrears, defaults etc. hence undertake not spoil your humour considering suppress ai read more
A dogmatic view of the Two Dogmas
Heterodoxia | December 2nd 2009 by Awet
In the concluding section of the Two Dogmas of Empiricism, Quine describes our entire knowledge as a “man made fabric,” (Two Dogmas of Empiricism, p. 39) an epistemological system that’s essentially a human construct consisting of s read more
E.O. Wilson and the limits of empiricism
Love of All Wisdom | November 29th 2009 by Amod Lele
Browsing in the library I recently stumbled across Edward O. Wilson’s ambitious book Consilience, in which the famous biologist tries to propose a unified account of knowledge – one in which the natural sciences take a supreme role. I ha read more
WHY IS Terrain PLEOMORPHISM UNKNOWN TO MODERN Germ MEDICINE?
DrEddyClinic.com - Live Blood Cell Darkfield Analyse Blog | November 21st 2009 by Dr. Eddy M.D.
WHY IS Terrain PLEOMORPHISM UNKNOWN TO MODERN Germ MEDICINE? A dichotomy in medical speculation, an unresolved philosophical conflict, has existed from ancient times to the present. This conflict is between two theories known traditionally as Empiric read more
Know Yer Nuts #5! C.A.R.E. Ministries, more Instant Magic Earth P…
Dr. Jim's Thinking Shop and Tea Room | November 14th 2009 by Jim Linville
Fifth in my series on annoying Canadian creationists and religiously rightwing party-poopers is C. A. R. E. (Christian Apologetics Research & Evangelism) Ministries Based in Winnipeg, this the first out of province purveyor of anti-intellectuali read more
Obama Rejects Bad Choices on Afghanistan
Liberal Values | November 12th 2009 by Ron Chusid
When presented with various options for Afghanistan but none were satisfactory, Barack Obama had the guts to do the right thing and demand more choices. This shows a tremendous difference for his predecessor, who was so spineless and lacking in intel read more
2012 - a crock of shit
Klintron's Brain | November 12th 2009
Mary Dery writes: Pinchbeck, like New Age thinkers all the way back to Madame Blavatsky, preaches a refried gospel of ancient wisdom and mystical, supra-rational knowledge. In 2007, he told The New York Times that “the rational, empirical worldview read more
A.N. Wilson: These proud titans of truth will destroy us all
The Daily Quail | November 3rd 2009 by Jamie Sport
Appropriately named Professor David Nutt, who was chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, was finally sacked last week for saying things the the Government - and more importantly, the Daily Mail - did not agree with. He hissed that a read more
Taking Full Stock of the Portland art scene, Part I
PORT: portlandart.net | October 27th 2009 by PORT: Portlandart.net
"The goal of our intellectual efforts cannot be a static, polished possession...In our many efforts toward knowledge, science, math, logic as in life itself, it is the process, not the terminus, that should concern us - if we are wise." Bru read more
Christian Scholars Directory: Additions
Goannatree | October 26th 2009
I have been overwhelmed by additions to the Christian Scholars Directory. If you'd like background to the Directory then check out the Introductory post. The Directory is organised alphabetically with a general section for Associations and Soci read more
THE HISTORY OF PLEOMORPHISM/ MONOMORPHISM
DrEddyClinic.com - Live Blood Cell Darkfield Analyse Blog | October 18th 2009 by Dr. Eddy M.D.
WHY IS PLEOMORPHISM UNKNOWN TO MODERN MEDICINE?A dichotomy in medical speculation, an unresolved philosophical conflict, has existed from ancient times to the present. This conflict is between two theories known traditionally as Empiricism and Ration read more
Experimental Geography at Miller Gallery Tonight, Oct 16!
Bittersweet Harvest: Your Source for the Emerging Pittsburgh… | October 16th 2009 by Bittersweet Harvest
Don't miss tonight the opening of Experimental Geography at Miller Gallery (5000 Forbes Ave, Purnell Center for the Arts) beginning from 6pm to 8 pm!Miller Gallery says:Geography benefits from the study of specific histories, sites, and memories. Eve read more
Tramadol’s History
Trendy Tots | October 12th 2009 by Chocolate Lollipop
Pharmacology is of the methodical areas that are concerned with the drug breakthrough practice. It is a squad of specialists who test drug substances for physiological analysis because there are disparities between how substances act and what they read more
The Ice Jacket
Demographic | October 8th 2009
As indulgencies go, buying a winter coat is one freighted with responsibility. Fashion wise, this will probably be your biggest investment of the year, and one you can’t afford to get wrong. Considering the amount of time you and your winter coat w 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
Personality: Nature vs Nurture
Helping Psychology | September 28th 2009
While certain branches of philosophy and psychology such as empiricism and behaviorism denounce the question of the origin of an individual’s personality as being completely irrelevant, most people find it to be the key to understanding the or read more
Love is Need Great Sex at All
Indra Mulyana dot Info | Indra | Indra Mulyana | Indra Top N… | September 27th 2009 by W.Endah N
LOVED unbalanced positions in your twenties, tried garments - up in your thirties and joined the mile - aerial club in your forties?Forasmuch as you are not alone.On our sexual journeys, the majority of us will slap out variant turn - ons in the chas 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
Lepore – Quine, Analyticity, and Transcendence
Spectropoetics | September 16th 2009 by G
In "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" [TD], Quine characterizes and rejects three approaches to making sense of analyticity. One approach attempts to reduce putative analytic statements to logical truths by synonym substitution; thus, supposing "unmarried me read more
Quine – Indeterminacy
Spectropoetics | September 16th 2009 by G
W.V. Quine’s thesis of the indeterminacy of translation is the theory which launched a thousand doctorates. During the 1970s it sometimes seemed to be as firmly entrenched a dogma among North American philosophers as the existence of God w read more
Quine – Two Dogmas Of Empiricism
Spectropoetics | September 15th 2009 by G
Kant's cleavage between analytic and synthetic truths was foreshadowed in Hume's distinction between relations of ideas and matters of fact, and in Leibniz's distinction between truths of reason and truths of fact. Leibniz spoke of the truths of reas read more
How to wage war against Islam
The Atheist Conservative | September 15th 2009 by theatheistconservative
We applaud Vijay Kumar’s prescriptions for winning the war against Islam – or, as he puts it, against Universal Jihad. Here’s a part of his essay (read it all here): The conflict between Universal Jihadists and the West is philosoph read more
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