"How solve this antinomy ( Read more... )

So, post banning, I'm going to have to move philosophical musing over here. Those of you who don't give a damn: forgive me ( Read more... )

Jeffrey Friedman's generous extension on the book review deadline means that I can finally, for the first time in many weeks, take a load off; just in time: happy new year, everyone. I love you guys.
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Today, passing from the simulated college students studying on the Quiet Green past the simulated college students playing packed frisbee games on the Main Green and between the two clashing currents of sound flowing from rival frats over the heads of the simulated fraternity crowds and their athletic harems, I had a flash-forward through my life ( Read more... )

In an act of rebellion, our Outing Club's sponsored rock climbing gave up on the Rhode Island Rock Gym and went out to Carabiners, in New Bedford ( Read more... )

I just realized that somebody wrote "Nietzsche Sux" on my whiteboard.

Now I'm going to babble philosophic in ad hoc lingo about stuff I haven't thought hard about yet:
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Yesterday sumofthedharmatold me that this -ive-ournal has become a monster.  Maybe ( Read more... )

I'm indecisive.

Philosophy of Science
I went into this term really wanting to take this class, but now I see it has a new professor who's pretty mediocre and who has what seemed like on the first day a much more specific view of what science is than I'd like. Meaning, I'd like to take a class, I think, that turns philosophy of science into the ( Read more... )

This is Richard Feynman talking pretty nicely about scientific integrity.

Sometimes, I wish I was a scientist, rather than just a science-groupie.

I have a lot to say. But I will say it later.