Today's xkcd is scary because it's true. Especially the alt text:
Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".

It's true*. I tried it out on a bunch of topics, from snails to velcro to Lady Gaga, and they all ended ( Read more... )

Today, in the philosophy lecture I TA for, the professor told a story about one of his philosophy professors, which I found telling. And in more ways I think than was intended.

My professor's professor was teaching at Pitt, and every day he would drive by the Cathedral of Learning, the tallest university building in the western hemisphere. And ( Read more... )

If there's a conflict between a scientific program and a philosophical scruple, it's very likely the scruple that you should give up. - Jerry Fodor, Hume Variations

It's probably bad sign that the more I read in my (currently) chosen field, the more annoyed and angry I get.