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Aboot Philosophy of Science

I came across a series on the Philosophy of Science from the CBC. There is a smattering of contemporary thinkers featured on the show. I am not familiar with most of them, but you can see Lovelock talk about his Gaia hypothesis or Smolin criticize string theory. I am hoping

My Brain Hurts

I read two articles by James Ross today. Now my brain hurts. In general, these articles are a critque of naturalistic philosophies of mind, from the analytic philosophical tradition. The first is arguing for the logical impossibility of arguing that thoughts are purely physical, because thoughts have features that physical

Voodoo Science

Jerry Pournelle wrote a piece many years ago called "The Voodoo Sciences". He was first and foremost concerned with defaming economics, a task that is now completed. However, he also included many of the social sciences in his definition. I thought the essay was interesting, but I think

Thomism and Modern Science

Just Thomism made a post on Question 115 of the First Part of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica. This is a pretty interesting section of the Summa, so I will translate it a bit. The first article asks whether individual, existing, material things can be causative agents in their