Philosophy Now Forum

Psychonaut wrote:I'm on it!

What are you on, that mind numbing stuff that makes for overly long books?

I am always impress by the fact that people can write books and can fill them with so many words. But for the most part I find books too long and laborious because of their length. For that reason I don't read many books or finish them. Can't we have shorter books that get to the point and stick to ...

The new web site does looks good. But one category of the magazine I didn't notice is 'Letters'. Did I miss it? I'm glad that P N didn't change its masthead or log as other magazines have. It is aesthetically pleasing. But I miss the blue background it used to reside in. Perhaps the red is a politic...

What does "science as inter-generational enterprise mean"?

It means that science is not paradigmal and Khun had it wrong, that science can't be viewed in different contexts.

As of this moment I am surprised that issue 69 is not on the Web, when we have already received it in the mail.

The issue is very interesting. Without Freud and his probing into our psychic I don't think we could have advanced into our complex world. Buenos Aires has a neighborhood called Villa Freud. Without that area of psychoanalysts I don't think Argentine society could have lived through its schizophreni...

"Well it was a Democracy that held power over three-quarters of the World."

In those days the empire wasn't very democratic, especially in the colonies. If democracy emerged, it emerged later, like it did in America and India.

"The British Empire?"

Can you be more specific.

I would say you guys have gone off topic, sort of kibitzing around.

I guess it depends how you describe 'power'.


a_uk, give us you definition of power as democracy.

I am reading three books simultaneously. One about Galileo, one about Samuel Johnson, the author of the first comprehensive English dictionary, and the third is called "The Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria. I first started reading the book about Johnson called 'Defining The World: Th...

Coberst, I think most of us know that Science can't solve everything and not everything can be measured in scientific terms. Nevertheless, I think it is good to have the rigors of scientific procedures around to push us to devise the best possible methods, even though we know that the absolute answe...

R,
Sorry I didn't notice!

"There's been a disappointing response to this. Anyone feel like posting a review?"

Rortabend,

You proposed this review of books so why haven't you been the first to post one? Come on!

The theory of evolution is interesting. Most of us are convinced about the theory. So for must of us it isn't a theory. But it remains a theory because nobody has proven it totally right or totally wrong. There are still questions. But it remains a theory because it is the most plausible and sensibl...