Greetings, all --
And then there's this:
http://www.xkcd.com/435/
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From: Victoria Hughes victo...@toryhughes.com
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com
Sent: Thu, Jul 7, 2011 11:46 pm
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Owen,
Please. I am confused. What is it that you think philosophers do?
Nick
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 9:40 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re:
P.S. I'll advertise that on my home page (www4.ncsu.edu/~basherwo)
I have nothing substantive to add, I just want to express my joy
at being prompted to imagine an alternative universe in which
one contributor to this list is named Basher Wo.
I live in two alternative universii (two mail lists
I'd be interested in hearing what others on this list think that modern-day
philosophers do. I'd express my opinion now, but I'm afraid it would taint
the no-doubt rich, insightful responses that I'm sure will follow.
But just to be clear, the question is: what to modern-day philosophers do?
One modern-day philosopher works hand-in-hand with scientists. I'm thinking
here of Daniel Dennett. Ethical behavior used to be pretty clear: do this,
don't do that, and you deserve to be punished if you violate those strictures.
But as the scientific evidence began to pile up that free will
Doug,
Let me just say that a think your questions is basically right, but perhaps
a tad broad. I agree that philosophers are what philosophers do, but only
when they are acting as philosophers. So a philosopher might tell us how to
run the economy or what the nature of the universe is, but
Hi -- reacting to quantum mechanics discussion.
Question -- I probably need to go back and reread my quantum and complexity
books, but asking anyway -- I can accept quantum particles gain a state when
being measured, but that only shows the influence of observation on quantum
particles. How do we
Elementary, my dear Dr. Holmes! I totally concur with his views that most Big
decisions in life are in the province of philosophy and humanity, not physics.
For an Oxford mathematician he shows surprisingly good sense! We have many
ethical decisions -- who: to marry, to make war on,
Philosophy should be about how to use your head, how to think and interact
with other thinking beings, and it should work even if you don't know jack
about physics, neuroscience, computation, or the history of philosophy,
though they are all rich sources of counter-examples.
And theology should
You mean no one has posted this yet?
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Although some philosophers would disagree with the detailed implications of
the following characterization, in a broad sense philosophers spend their
time analyzing and clarifying ideas. This is often referred to as conceptual
analysis, and it is understood as what one can do from an armchair,
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Owen,
** **
Please. I am confused. What is it that you think philosophers do?
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Nick
Well, to be frank, I don't think I can answer beyond they philosophize .. or
do philosophy. And
Nick, Owen,
Did you guys get my post about what philosophers do? If not, here it is
again.
*-- Russ *
*
*
Although some philosophers would disagree with the detailed implications of
the following characterization, in a broad sense philosophers spend their
time analyzing and clarifying ideas.
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:49:39AM -0600, peggy miller wrote:
Hi -- reacting to quantum mechanics discussion.
Question -- I probably need to go back and reread my quantum and complexity
books, but asking anyway -- I can accept quantum particles gain a state when
being measured, but that only
Owen, I think we're basically in agreement -- although see my comment below
about what one can do from an armchair.
Regarding what philosophers do, I think the issue is clouded by the fact
that we want to think of philosophers as deep thinkers wrestling with our
deepest problems whereas most
All,
I have a creepy feeling some of my posts aren't getting through.
For instance, did anybody ever tell me what OWEN things philosophers do?
Including Owen? If so, could somebody resend the message, cause I never
found out.
Also, I keep writing messages in which I argue that
I'm in it now. it looks like the very simple concept of posting
messages to circles lets you emulate everything from twitter feeds
(short messages to the world) to newletters (longer posts to a group)
to chat rooms (posts exchanged among members of a group) to chat and
IM (posts to a single person
Owen,
I finally found your answer. Sorry! It was, in part,
But from any direct experience, people appear to believe To Philosophize ==
To Argue Incessantly.
I don't know which people you have in mind. I am sorry that you have met
people like that who have claimed to be
Also, I keep writing messages in which I argue that the proper comparison
for philosophy is with mathematics, not with physics. At least two of them
I can find no trace of in my inbox, my out box, sent items, or anywhere.
Gremlins.
I got those.
Frank
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com
Thanks, Frank.
Thank God SOMEBODY is getting them.
Nick
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Frank Wimberly
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 10:44 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Grand
To which I would add this: The difficult experiments that deal with
this subtle issue are relatively recent, and until it became possible
to carry them out, I believe that it was possible to argue that the
system was already in the finally observed state before the
measurement confirmed what state
I just signed up, am on the list: is there a quicker way to get an
account?
Went to Jochen's page, looks nice and clean. Of course pictures of the
Maldives beaches are helpful. Does a trip there come with the G+
account?...
Tory
On Jul 8, 2011, at 7:07 PM, James Steiner wrote:
I'm in it
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