Thu 1 May, 2008 12:32 am - Kuhn's ideas on that matter go all the way back to Kant (though his application of them to science was very interesting and original.) The tendency has also shown by work in gestalt... (view)
Wed 2 Apr, 2008 12:47 am - Intersubjectivity (literally) refers to things that are common between the subjective relations of individual people to the world. That is, you and I might subjectively believe that a certain thing... (view)
Wed 2 Apr, 2008 12:18 am - One of the most interesting (and puzzling) things about self-consciousness is that it is a situation where a subject becomes an object "for itself." Not only am I some kind of window on... (view)
Wed 2 Apr, 2008 12:12 am - That's a slightly odd twist to analytic philosophy. True, it often did deal with formal constructions that didn't apply to direct objects (abstract logic - kind of like math), but it... (view)
Sun 30 Mar, 2008 08:57 pm - Existentialism in general is nowhere near as big as it was in the first half of the twentieth century (when it can be said to have occurred as a "movement.") I am not sure entirely about... (view)
Sun 16 Mar, 2008 11:41 pm - A few points:
First, for those who totally reject the premises of Christianity, at least be aware of the basic historical facts. There is very basic evidence for the fact that a figure... (view)
Mon 27 Aug, 2007 03:03 pm - Within philosophy, the period of metaphysical speculation ran approximately from the time of Plato to the writings of Nietzsche (or so Heidegger says - I don't quite see the will to power as a... (view)
Tue 1 Aug, 2006 07:24 am - Yes, as I said, it took very little time after Einstein published his paper on GR for Schwarzschild to find a solution to the field equations (Einstein hadn't thought that it could be done.)... (view)
Mon 31 Jul, 2006 02:29 pm - First of all, black holes were theoretically suggested from the equations of general relativity. The most basic explanation would come from the Schwarzschild metric for spacetime around a perfectly... (view)
