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Monday, March 3, 2025

Chat GPT on Spinoza, Hume, and Frankfurt.

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I asked ChatGPT to "write a 1000 word paper with sources comparing the theories of mind of Spinoza and Hume." First pass at a resp...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Reflections on The Collected Works of Karl Marx

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This frozen puddle I’ve passed twice before Once carrying a bag of dog shit Once empty handed Dark and smooth Like volcanic gla...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

I Like Vertebral Wedging And I Cannot Lie

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Men prefer big butts, right? Everybody knows that. Or do they? A recent paper in Evolution and Human Behavior  seeks to answer this most...
Friday, May 9, 2014

Primary and Secondary Qualities in Locke

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In Book II chapter viii of the Essay Locke provides two related criteria by which primary qualities are to be distinguished from secondary...
Sunday, May 4, 2014

Uneasiness and Desire in Locke

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The relation between uneasiness and desire in the chapter on power in the Essay (chapter XXI of book II) is at first glance unclear. The r...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The World Is Only (In) The Mind

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In what are probably his two most famous works, the Principles of Human Knowledge  ( P ) and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous ( D...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Probability, likelihood, and the evidence for the existence of oh, god, is this going to be about Bayes' Theorem?

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I've been thinking about why so many otherwise reasonable people (including my former self) might view the appearance of design in the s...
Friday, January 17, 2014

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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh My rating: 4 of 5 stars Really good read. Gives a terrific historical account of the ...