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Comment by Adriana on April 22, 2012 at 5:42pm

Oh, I see why now! It's a book. I guess he's trying to sell the book.

Comment by Adriana on April 22, 2012 at 5:39pm

I could not enlarge them either. That web site is not easy to navigate. I just think the designs were cool.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 22, 2012 at 4:50pm

Hmmm...it would help if I could embiggen them so I could read them. They look fun though.

Comment by Adriana on April 22, 2012 at 4:39pm

Minimalist philosophy posters. Fantastic!

I love determinism, relativism, empiricism. I don't get utilitarianism. Someone explain the symbol to me?

Comment by Neal on April 21, 2012 at 5:04pm

Excellent. =)

Comment by doone on April 21, 2012 at 11:32am

Philosophy for Birds

Apr. 12, 2012

Comment by doone on February 5, 2012 at 12:46pm

Will We Ever Solve The Consciousness Problem?

Tom Siegfried has his doubts:

[T]he consciousness problem is inherently similar to another famous problem that actually has been proved unsolvable: finding a self-consistent set of axioms for deducing all of mathematics. As the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel proved eight decades ago, no such axiomatic system is possible; any system as complicated as arithmetic contains true statements that cannot be proved within the system.

Gödel’s proof emerged from deep insights into the self-referential nature of mathematical statements. He showed how a system referring to itself creates paradoxes that cannot be logically resolved — and so certain questions cannot in principle be answered. Consciousness, in a way, is in the same logical boat. At its core, consciousness is self-referential awareness, the self’s sense of its own existence. It is consciousness itself that is trying to explain consciousness.

Comment by Adriana on December 14, 2011 at 9:15pm

You may be interested in reading this discussion on Christian apologist philosopher Alvin Plantinga that I posted here in the Main Forum.

Comment by Michel on November 13, 2011 at 1:28pm

@doone - This is a great widget!
I've added it as a page under LIBRARY 2.

Thnx for posting. 

Comment by doone on November 13, 2011 at 12:46pm

"Philosophy: The Kevin Bacon Of Wikipedia"

We somehow missed this great widget, from back in May, that shows how all paths lead to philosophy... on Wikipedia. Creator Jeff Winters explains: 

There was an idea floating around that continuously following the first link of any Wikipedia article will eventually lead to "Philosophy." This sounded like a reasonable assertion, one that makes a certain amount of sense in retrospect: any description of something will typically use more general terms.

(Hat tip: Maggie Koerth-Baker)

 

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