Sun 20 Jul, 2008 08:25 pm - I hope that this post is not too presumptuous. I think that some of you might be interested in my new philosophy/puzzle blog located at [url=http://www.amathematicsgleam.blogspot.com]A Mathematics... (view)
Sun 15 Jun, 2008 10:49 pm - Thanks! I'm happy that it's attracted such attention and hopefully it will be useful to someone. I should have a rough draft of the paper that I'm writing within the month, and... (view)
Mon 2 Jun, 2008 06:45 pm - William James was referring to the substance dualism first posited by Descartes. [I]Res extensa [/I]are material things extended in space and time, but are susceptible to skepticism. As Descartes... (view)
Mon 2 Jun, 2008 03:32 pm - Well Boagie, you've assumed a lot. I said I was working on the [I]problem[/I] of free will - which is not whether the phenomenon of consciousness has causal powers, but whether or not certain... (view)
Mon 2 Jun, 2008 11:21 am - I've probably bungled this severely. I'm just trying to translate [I]cogito ergo sum [/I]into logic for something I'm writing. Let me put it this way:[I]
Thinking[/I] ([I]t[/I])... (view)
Mon 2 Jun, 2008 11:09 am - Yes, I'm just trying to translate the statement. Though I have a bachelors degree in Mass Communication, I've never taken a logic or philosophy course. I'm primarily autodidactic,... (view)