We are the student members of the Philosophy Club at UTB. Thinking Out Loud is the name of our radio show, which airs online, via UTB Sting Radio.
“I would like to challenge the very starting point of the empiricists’ philosophy. There are several conclusive refutations of empiricism. I will show the empiricist distinction between empirical and analytical knowledge to be plainly false and self-contradictory. [23] That will then lead us to…
Awesome post up over at Symbiartic on SciAm blogs. It’s all about science-themed graffiti. I posted a few here, but you should go check out the whole collection!
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on children and grown-ups
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Plato (left) and Aristotle (Right)
From MIT’s Technology Review:
And yet there is an even bigger philosophical revolution waiting in the wings. The theory of computing is a philosophical minnow compared to the potential of another theory that is currently dominating thinking about computation.
At least, this is the view of Scott Aaronson, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Today, he puts forward a persuasive argument that computational complexity theory will transform philosophical thinking about a range of topics such as the nature of mathematical knowledge, the foundations of quantum mechanics and the problem of artificial intelligence.
More at the link….
Every newspaper has a science column - its called “the rest of the newspaper”. I wouldn’t want a counterpart column for science. Do you really want to be putting the term “science” on the same level as the term “astrology”?
