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Nice and smug me for knowing the answer but unfortunately its not and never can be Mole Day here as its 23-10

Well said. Let's reclaim our calendar! Americans keep going on about 9/11 but I don't recall anything happening on 9th November. Very strange.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/ne ... 979047.stm

Hawking strikes again. What an idiot.

Hurray for Susan Greenfield!

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/12757 ... surge.html

I rest my case.

I think Hegelian might be pushing it a bit!

I'm not sure Hawking is claiming anything. It's more likely to be his publisher misinterpreting the book for a press release!

Given up on brains in vats!?

Excellent article. Couldn't agree more. In the UK, the issue of catastrophic asteroid impacts is not really taken seriously because it is associated with an eccentric former MP called Lembit Opik. One can only hope that we reach a level of technological sophistication and awareness by 2182 when ther...

Is Zizek a "utopian thinker" as Scruton allegedly contends? That is the question that I raised in my post. I thought that the question might be relevant to your Phd research. Rortabend just dismissed the question as he dismissed Scruton. Rorty surely is no Socrates. I'll bet he's a profes...

If you find yourself agreeing with Scruton it's generally a good idea to have a dose of something stronger than pessimism.

Econometrics is the branch of economics based on quantitative analysis and statistics so you are not wrong to suggest it. Technically it belongs on my list but, given that most of economics has been mathematically based for the last century or so, I am more concerned with disciplines that draw on ot...

Great. Thanks John.

I need help with some research I am doing on the link between epistemological naturalism and economics. I am trying to compile a list of branches of economics that use the results and/or methods of another science. Here is what I have come up with so far: 1. Evolutionary economics (Schumpeter) 2. Ec...

If you want to learn more about Kierkegaard try listening to Hubert Dreyfus podcast. He teaches at Berkeley.

The only way that you can assert such a thing, paradoxically, is by understanding the "origins of the Universe", and how that 'understanding' relates to the present state of a (particular?) mind's 'evolution'. How so? Just because you can understand the question 'What is the source of uni...

Your mind has not evolved to understand the origins of the universe. Try to remember that you are an intelligent ape.