Beginning of Modern Science & Modern Philosophy

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of theology," modern philosophers have often thought of their discipline as little more than the "handmaiden of science." Even for those who haven't thought that, the shadow of sc

Talks

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September 20, 2021 Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity: University of Pennsylvania Philosophy and Statistics Reading Group (via Zoom), July 20, 2021 BQP Af

Stove, What Is Wrong With Our Thoughts

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enquire what the pagan philosophers of that time were thinking about, we expect to hear of something more rational, at least, than questions about the Trinity. And so we do, at an

The False Friend of Freedom

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economists, let alone philosophers, seem to be in the same situation -- as when George McGovern said, after two bankrupt businesses, that he might not have voted for the legislati

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