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
Creationism and Intelligent Design Genes – the language of God 6: Theological implications 15 Jul 201410 Aug 2014 Genes – the language of God 0: Preface Genes – the language of God 1: Genes as Language Genes – the language of God 2: Other popular gene myths and metaphors Genes – the language of God 3: Why genes aren’t information Genes – the language of God 4: Why… Read More
History Hume’s Dialogues: A coloured edition 18 Mar 201212 Feb 2019 Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is one of the very best philosophical works ever written, as I was reminded this morning while seeking a passage. But it is not easily available in a decent format online. Sure, you can download a facsimile of the second edition (1779) from Archive.Org, and I… Read More
Epistemology On birds, and ornithologists, and mutual respect 31 Jul 20124 Oct 2017 Some time back I had dinner with Pete Richerson, a well known ornithologist and biological theorist. He told me and the rest of the table an anecdote about hooded crows. It seems that in order to capture one to band, the ornithologists must sneak in the dead of night to… 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