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As someone interested in pursuing a philosophy PhD, there are many things to... - two-colours
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Philosophy, et cetera: Progress in Philosophy
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| | Q. What progress has been made in philosophy over the past 3000 years? A. ...? Popular opinion has it that philosophical questions are un...
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Book Reviews: "The Dream of Reason" & "The Dream of Enlightenment" by Anthony Gottlieb - Anthony Skews
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| | It turns out Reason and Enlightenment are difficult to define.
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Measuring the Size of the World | Grand Strategy: The View from Oregon
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| | Saturday A Scientific Research Program That Never Happened Carl Sagan liked to characterize the Library of Alexandria as a kind of scientific research institution in classical antiquity: "Here was a community of scholars, exploring physics, literature, medicine, astronomy, geography, philosophy, mathematics, biology, and engineering. Science and scholarship had come of age. Genius flourished there. The...
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| I've been increasingly tempted to make this blog into a forum solely for responding to the posts at Overcoming Bias. (Possible new name: "Wallowing in Bias.") Two days ago, Robin Hanson pointed to a fascinating paper by Bousso, Harnik, Kribs, and Perez, on predicting the cosmological constant from an "entropic" version of the anthropic principle....