http://www.fuckphilosophy.com Wherein the futility and absurdity of the endeavor claiming wisdom as its object is exposed Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:35:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our consciousness is constituted by sense impressions that are put together by our brain somehow (Kantian "categories" or whatever - I don't *actually* see the computer in front of me). Our concepts/images/ideas have features/details that we have inherited/learned through a continuous lineage that reaches back into the unknown dark (experiences/events in the ... http://www.fuckphilosophy.com/?p=127 Implicit to everything I was saying was that a re-enchantment of the world is in order. Look at all the students you taught here at [insert institution of higher learning]: they called themselves 'Christian' (which is supposed to be a "spiritual" tradition), but how spiritual are they? *Maybe* they pray, ... http://www.fuckphilosophy.com/?p=124 There is an essential similarity between addiction (esp. quitting) and sorites paradoxes: What difference does one more cigarette/margarita/pebble/hair/etc. make? First of all: sorites paradoxes (or 'the paradox of the heap'). 1,000 pebbles together certainly constitutes a heap. 3 pebbles certainly doesn't. What about 999 pebbles? Yes. 998? Yes. The question is: ... http://www.fuckphilosophy.com/?p=122 If the laws of nature are mathematical laws and regular in some way (as in either they don't change or they change regularly), then does it follow that in such a universe everything that is ultimately knowable is knowable a priori? If anything is a priori, then mathematics is. In a consistent ... http://www.fuckphilosophy.com/?p=117 If I could meet anyone living, near the top of my list would be Wendy Carlos...and then I'd at least try to put the moves on her, but only after worshiping everything (that I'm aware of) that she's done. http://www.fuckphilosophy.com/?p=112 My favorite movie of all time is Tron (see my Tron blog). The music is of course absolutely incredible. I have recently been turned on to ambient electronic music, and am currently listening to Sonic Seasonings (1972) and... I just wanted the entire world to know that. http://www.fuckphilosophy.com/?p=108 Check this out. Now we can test for 'serial killer'. http://www.fuckphilosophy.com/?p=99 of all the free online dictionaries, i don't go to thefreedictionary.com because it is so free. somehow it is freer than the other free ones, but i can't even conceive of how it could be. and for that reason i don't like it. i don't trust it because it is ... http://www.fuckphilosophy.com/?p=98 I today realized, without ever having tried twitter, and not really understanding what it was in the first place, that I had a place in my life for twitter. Then I started reading about twitter and I read the 'criticisms' section of the wikipedia page, and I was struck by ... http://www.fuckphilosophy.com/?p=97 All of us here at fuckphilosopy.com have been busy, and i've been busy raging against the people immediately around me for the last 6+ months, then i realized that the people around aren't anywhere near as bad as most people, so i decided that i would start raging on the ... http://www.fuckphilosophy.com/?p=94