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by danielam 9y ago
I don't know what this book argues specifically, but the problem of color is very much a special case of the problem of qualia. If one takes a presumptuous and shallow view of science, one might be inclined to accept Galileo's cha
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by danielam 9y ago
That's a very facile response to the article (sadly, the article doesn't go into any depth on the subject). One could just as well ask the same about any property that we perceive in the senses and later apprehend through the inte
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by danielam 9y ago
Yes, I read that passage and was left irritated by the philosophical mediocrity of it. Name-dropping Kant only makes matters worse given that his conceptualism is incoherent. The subjective/objective distinction is problematic. Obvious
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by danielam 9y ago
Jaynes and Rescher et al. were the first to pop into my mind. Prima facie, sounds like some kind of epistemic logic with probabilities.
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by danielam 9y ago
Not for no reason were Soviet general secretaries sometimes called the Red Tsars. There is most certainly a civilizational continuity between imperial Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. This particular civilization
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by danielam 9y ago
Amusing quip, and perhaps characteristic of certain classes of HN comments, but it's important to distinguish between the claim that something ought to appear in the search results and the claim that the results ought to conform to my
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Consider a Monarchy, America (2016)(nytimes.com)
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Five decades of majestic failure to explain consciousness(thenewatlantis.com)
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Gottlob Frege: The machine in the ghost(prospectmagazine.co.uk)
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by danielam 9y ago
I was specifically writing about the works of Aristotle. Also: [1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/medieval-philosophy/index... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_of_the_Greek_C
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by danielam 9y ago
I am not aware of Aristotle's works surviving among the Greeks. Islamic scholars are credited with the preservation of his works and their reintroduction to the West. EDIT: A downvote? How about a source instead?
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The Worship of the Wealthy (1908)(online-literature.com)
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Xi, a modern editor with a back end written in Rust(github.com)
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Antarctica: 260M year old forest discovered(newsweek.com)
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The Fallacy of Success (1915)(commonlit.org)
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Lyft opens NYC office, brings self-driving car engineers(cnet.com)
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by danielam 9y ago
P.S. Candidates must be in New York City or committed to relocating and must be authorized to work in the US.
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by danielam 9y ago
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by danielam 9y ago
I could, but that's not a terribly meaningful or productive question. Take anything you take to be a statement of moral significance (e.g., a moral judgement). If it's true, then it is a moral fact. A better question might be abou
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by danielam 9y ago
To be sure, there are plenty of those who criticize incessantly without offering real alternatives where alternatives would be needed, and certainly one can theorize, but what I find worrying about this article is how it seems to be worship
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by danielam 9y ago
> Basically, you can't derive an "ought" from an "is", and science can only give you an "is". While empirical science does not deal with matters of moral concern as such, the fact-value dichotomy you re
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by danielam 9y ago
Indeed. I am disappointed by the article's own Manichean, tribalist, myopic flavor. The rampant skepticism and ethos that embraces bullshitting to get your way is not partisan, it is -- as many other things -- broadly a property of our
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Dennett's “From Bacteria to Bach and Back” is one long circular argument [pdf](claremont.org)
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Bondi, a programming language centred on pattern matching(bondi.it.uts.edu.au)
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Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting(ndpr.nd.edu)
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Managing the managers: The rise of the business 'philosopher-kings'(bbc.com)
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by danielam 9y ago
"[...] the universe is more or less a frothing foam of energetic particles [...]" "Particles" is plural, implying separation. It that, too, a "matter of consciousness"? Sounds a lot like "consciousness&qu
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by danielam 9y ago
Academic ideas often precede cultural and social changes. While the terms in question were previously unknown outside academia and restricted to the postmodern milieu, they are now terms I hear quite often among relatively recent university
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by danielam 9y ago
So, 1. a room and a person in it are separate 2. nothing is separate from the universe Therefore, there are two things that are not separate from the universe but separate from each other.
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by danielam 9y ago
"As I have argued there and elsewhere, naturalism cannot in fact be salvaged. It either collapses into Rosenberg-style eliminativism, which is (hard as Rosenberg tries to make it work) ultimately incoherent; or, in order to do justice

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