Fallibilism and noncontingent propositions, how to mix?
For years i had been bothered about how to more precisely formulate my ideas about fallibilism and make them consistent with the existence of noncontingent propositions. The question was: if…
Thoughts about polymathy
Case in point, i'm taking a break from my reading of an introduction to relativity theory to write this post. I wrote this in a hurry becus i felt in…
Re. Thinking in foreign language makes decisions more rational (Ars Technica)
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/thinking-in-foreign-language-makes-decisions-more-rational.ars This surely sounds like one of those dubious psychology experiments. U know the type, the type with a single or perhaps two small experiments that were slightly below p<0.05…
Thoughts about: An Introduction to Language (Fromkin et al)
Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams - An Introduction to Language I thought i better read a linguistics textbook before i start studying it formally. Who wud want to look…
Thoughts about SEP’s Naturalism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/ The term ‘naturalism’ has no very precise meaning in contemporary philosophy. Its current usage derives from debates in America in the first half of the last century. The self-proclaimed…
More on pomo nonsense
http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html - http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Superstition-Academic-Quarrels-Science/dp/0801857074 I cudnt find it online due to the dam copyright trolls. - http://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Impostures-Alan-Sokal/dp/1861976313?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175453315&sr=8-2 Same with this one. - http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/chomsky-on-postmodernism.html Noam Chomsky on nonsense pomo. Since no one…
On being right and avoiding being wrong
The two goals: 1) having true beliefs, 2) not having false beliefs may seem to be equivalent or something like that, but they in fact result in different optimal strats.…
Paul Graham on philosophy
http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html - There are things I know I learned from studying philosophy. The most dramatic I learned immediately, in the first semester of freshman year, in a class taught by…
I want to get into philosophy, where do I start?
A rewrite of something I wrote earlier. This time in standard English as to make it easier to get people to read. -- Q: I want to get into philosophy,…
Recent paper about democracy and self-assessment/Dunning-Kruger
More mainstream article that mentioned the study: http://news.yahoo.com/people-arent-smart-enough-democracy-flourish-scientists-185601411.html The actual paper: A Mathematical Model of Democratic Elections Original Dunning-Kruger paper: unskilledandunaware "Abstract: Democratic election is the preferred method for determining…
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