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| | [AI summary] The text provides an extensive list of books and authors, focusing on science, philosophy, and related fields. It highlights key themes such as the role of science in understanding the universe, the evolution of human existence, the conflict between science and religion, and the pursuit of meaning in life. Authors like Carl Sagan, Edward O. Wilson, and Michael Shermer are emphasized for their contributions to these themes. The text also includes a personal note from the author, mentioning their background and website, which appears to be a blog or database related to science fiction awards and literature.
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| | Dan Faggella recorded an unusual podcast with me that's now online. He introduces me as a "quantum physicist," which is something that I never call myself (I'm a theoretical computer scientist) but have sort of given up on not being called by others. But the ensuing 85-minute conversation has virtually nothing to do with physics,...
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| | The elimination and ratification of belief The problem of nihilism is also the problem of belief. If our highest values have corroded and our firmest foundations have been removed from beneath us then the question is "what is left to believe in". Even deeper than this crisisinbelief is the crisisofbelief itself that issues from the...
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| In part I we saw that the partisan incommensurability many CAM proponents and apologists like to invoke is vacuous: self-refuting. Therefore, it should not be surprising that this does not figure in the philosophy of Thomas Kuhn; it only appears as a straw man in the work of Kuhn's critics: or a facile philosophical redoubt...