These are my links for December 14th from 10:36 to 10:53:
The PhilPapers Surveys – The PhilPapers Survey was a survey of professional philosophers and others on their philosophical views, carried out in November 2009. The Survey was taken by 3226 respondents, including 1803 philosophy faculty members and/or PhDs and 829 philosophy graduate students.
The PhilPapers Metasurvey was [...]
These are my links for December 14th from 10:28 to 10:34:
[quant-ph/0204088] The Wave Function: It or Bit? – Schroedinger's wave function shows many aspects of a state of incomplete knowledge or information ("bit"): (1) it is usually defined on a space of classical configurations, (2) its generic entanglement is, therefore, analogous to statistical correlations, and (3) [...]
“The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching.”
- Assyrian Tablet, [...]
These are my links for November 16th through December 14th:
UC Davis Philosophy 102, Theory of Knowledge: Table of Contents for Lecture Notes – The subject of this course is what has come to be called “theory of knowledge” or “epistemology.” The two names are interchangeable in common use. (A similar pair of terms for philosophical disciplines [...]
“Truly, whoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you unjust.”
Alternatively, in paraphrase: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
- François-Marie Arouet, Questions sur les [...]