Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Peter Hacker on Philosophers and Scientists Violating Everyday Words
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“ [Expressions] can and are violated by unconsciously crossing ordinary uses of expressions with half-understood technical ones.” — P.M.S...
Saturday, 18 September 2021
Stephen Hawking’s Philosophical(!) Position on the Uncertainty Principle
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In a debate called ‘Scientists vs Philosophers’ (on YouTube), the host opens up with this question: “Why is it that so many physicists ar...
Monday, 13 September 2021
Albert Einstein’s Philosophy of Science — Circa 1916
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i) Introduction ii) Science is Observation, Induction and Cataloguing? iii) Intuition and Deductive Thought iv) Truth There’s no reason to...
Friday, 10 September 2021
What does the statement “The brain produces consciousness” mean?
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The philosopher Daniel Dennett (1942-) once stated the following words about his fellow American philosopher John Searle (1932-): “Sea...
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