New article[s] at the Stanford Encyclopedia 15 Sep 2009 Kant on space and time, by Andrew Janiak Information processing and thermodynamic entropy, by Owen Maroney Metaphysics
Epistemology 50 words for snow 7: explanations and phenomena 18 Dec 20171 Mar 2019 Series Conceptual confusion The economics of cultural categories What are phenomena? What counts as sociocultural? Species Constructing phenomena Explanations and phenomena Anyone who has ever had a child knows the issue with indefinite “why?” questions. The interrogator asks why for every answer that is given, until the responder gets tired… Read More
Metaphysics Why am I not speaking at 2012 Global Atheism? 28 Oct 201128 Oct 2011 Next year, in Melbourne, where I live and 2 hours from where I have been living over the past several years, the Global Atheism Convention will be held. I am an Australian practical atheist (and philosophical Agnostic, which will become significant in a minute), who has published in The Australian… Read More
Accommodationism Accommodating Science: What is the problem? 20 Feb 201423 Feb 2014 [As I write the first draft of my accommodationism book, I will post chapters here under the Category “Accommodationism”. Here is the latest – which comes before Undefining Religion] The religion-versus-science debate took a special turn in the West because of the existence not only of doctrinal religion but of… Read More
Kant on space and time, by Andrew Janiak Earlier this year, there was some buzz in the science news about new quantum evidence for a “holographic universe”, in which we would only have 2 real spatial dimensions, while the 3rd would be holographic: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203130708.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle