A blog worth reading 8 Aug 2007 Kate Devitt, a PhD student at Rutgers, as a rather wonderful blog, Mnemosynosis, on matters relating to memory. She’s got at present a very interesting post on bacterial cognition worth reading. Logic and philosophy
Logic and philosophy Conspiracy theories 27 Dec 2007 The online journal Episteme has a special issue out on conspiracy theories. Examples include God as a conspiracy theory, the 9/11 WTC “controlled demolition” theory and questions of rationality of those who engage in them. Late note: This is a subscription journal. Read More
Epistemology Once more into the fray, dear agnostics 27 Nov 201122 Jun 2018 I like Larry Moran. More than any other scientist, he has educated me on the standard (and occasionally nonstandard) theories of evolution, biochemistry (of which I know little, but what I do know is largely due to him), and even a bit of other stuff like information theory (he won’t… Read More
Epistemology Metaphysical determinism 20 May 201227 Aug 2012 There is a hypothesis called the Sapir-Whorf Thesis (also known as linguistic relativity) in language that one can only think what one’s language permits you to think, and indeed forces you to think. This idea that some conceptual scheme can determine how you think is widely held. It appears again… Read More