Friday, 23 December 2022
Did Mathematics “Know” the Universe is Expanding, When Einstein Didn’t?
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A New Scientist writer asks her readers two questions: (1) “How did Einstein’s equations ‘know’ that the universe was expanding, when he di...
Sunday, 18 December 2022
Are the questions “Why is water wet?” and “Why does the physical give rise to experience?” bogus?
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The philosopher Valerie Hardcastle tackles the mysterian’s questions, “Why is water H₂O?”, “Why is water wet?” and “Why couldn’t water be XY...
Thursday, 15 December 2022
Ludwig Wittgenstein on the Arithmetical Statement “2 + 2 = 4”
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The philosopher Michael Dummett called Ludwig Wittgenstein a “full-blooded conventionalist” and even an “anarchist” when it came to his phil...
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