The New Object (How to Read Continental Philosophy)
To the extent that we think about it at all, we usually understand an object in the wild as existing on its own, independently of experience. Science takes this common […]
To the extent that we think about it at all, we usually understand an object in the wild as existing on its own, independently of experience. Science takes this common […]
In those sombre forests of his striving his own soul rose before him, and he saw himself… W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk Though the embryo […]
Nature is often referred to as blind, and blind first of all to its own existence. As the object of science, nature knows nothing about physics, chemistry, or biology. Science, […]
Nature is often referred to as blind, and blind first of all to its own existence. As the object of science, nature knows nothing about physics, chemistry, or biology. Science, […]
The distinction between theoretical and observational physics might confuse people as to the difference between theory and practice. At first, it might look like the empirical aspect of physics falls […]
Below I’m reproducing my part of an exchange I had this week with Bill Powers on the nature of the theoretical. Using the concrete example of the baseball game helps […]
The 60s and 70s are remembered for many things: Vietnam, Woodstock, Watergate, the Cold War. When I pull out far enough, however, and see this period in the wide sweep […]
A physicist might explain the theory of general relativity in terms of one or more observers. “Let us imagine a spacious chest resembling a room with an observer inside,” Einstein […]
An example of a theoretical error that commonly misrepresents the nature of reality can be found in Steven Pinker’s The Sense of Style. Pinker is a cognitive scientist and, as […]
1. To whom has a consciousness of existence been given? Only to such a one has the world been disclosed. 2. To know that something exists is not the same […]
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