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  philosophy

March 3rd, 2008

I Was Not Almost a Bag of Turnips

I’ve been writing about Weak Substantivalism. Here are the two previous posts. 1. Two Kinds of Substantivalism2. They Are There: […]
March 2nd, 2008

They Are There: Some Consequences of Weak Substantivalism

A few days ago I laid out three views about the nature of space-time. Here’s a quick summary of those […]
February 29th, 2008

Two Kinds of Substantivalism

Substantivalism is the view that space is a real entity. A lot of substantivalists believe that there are (at least) […]
February 28th, 2008

The Terminator I’ve Been Waiting For All My Life

Finally! They’re doing a Terminator in the future when all the robot war stuff happens. I’ve wanted this movie ever […]
February 28th, 2008

Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy

In the last few hours, I’ve stumbled on quite a few cool bits of philosophy… 1. Mike Almeida has a […]
February 26th, 2008

Phistophocles – Pretty Funny

(HT: Justin over at Show Me The Argument)
February 23rd, 2008

The Puzzle of Inadvisable Parenthood

Ralph Wedgewood over at PEA Soup presents an interesting puzzle that David Velleman recently discussed at a conference. Here is […]
February 21st, 2008

Scientists Find Believing is Seeing

This is a pretty interesting article that was just posted on Slashdot. It summarizes some pretty cool findings that should […]
February 20th, 2008

Numb3rs and Searle’s Chinese Room

A couple of months ago Adam Arico over at Aspring Lemming noted that the TV Show Numb3rs gave a quick […]
February 20th, 2008

Truth and Ontology Added to My To Do List

I really want to find time to read Trenton Merrick’s new book Truth and Ontology. It looks really interesting. There […]