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Life as I See It: Why We Hide

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Life as I See It. Thoughts and ramblings of my life as I see it. Friday, December 10, 2010. Ps, if some of this doesn't make sense, it's because I wrote it at 2 am. my apologies). Why am I telling you this? For yourself. 2:27. I know this was a super long little tidbit, and it was kinda super serious and deep. But it has been churning in my heart for awhile now, maybe even years. I just thought I would share it, and I would love to hear your thoughts. Vivre dans l'amour et la paix,. I think the bit about...

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Producing a Robust Body of Data with a Single Technique | wiplash

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Pittsburgh History and Philosophy of Science Work in Progress Blog. Laquo; Absent Relations: A Critical Look at Rovelli’s Relational Quantum Mechanics. Producing a Robust Body of Data with a Single Technique. October 9, 2009. Thanks to all those who came to my talk tonight or emailed me about it. I got useful suggestions for smoothing out some rough patches in my argument. Here’s my abstract again:. I will post the paper to the Philosophy of Science Preprint Archive once I got the rights to all my figure...

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wiplash | Pittsburgh History and Philosophy of Science Work in Progress Blog | Page 2

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Pittsburgh History and Philosophy of Science Work in Progress Blog. How to solve the regress of justification problem: justification as a three-valued variable. February 13, 2009. Because should it turn out that any claim in a putative justificatory chain is unjustified, its status as unjustified infects the rest of the claims in the chain, ultimately undermining the justification of lead claim in the chain. Is justified, must themselves be justified. If yes, then metajustification presents no soluti...

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What’s the point of Naming and Necessity? | Plato is Terrible

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Rants of a frustrated philosophy student. Intuition Pandering vs Actual Moral Philosophy. Dropped out of university, ending the blog →. What’s the point of Naming and Necessity? May 18, 2011. I’ve got some questions about Kripke’s. Basically, I’ve only heard good things about this book, so I’ve read it and tried as best I can to understand it, but it seems like complete fluff to me. So here I’ll lay out. As I understand it, and why I think that. I have the table in my hands, I can point to it, and when I...

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On Actual Causation, Part I | wiplash

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Pittsburgh History and Philosophy of Science Work in Progress Blog. Laquo; New WIP URL. On Actual Causation, Part II. On Actual Causation, Part I. March 20, 2009. Okay, the pre-introduction is out of the way. So now, on with the show! 8212;———————————————————————————. Though I agree with Glymour in opposing this method, I’m not sure how to replace it, yet, with respect to theorizing about actual causation. So the objection has the Socratic form. Woodward (2003) develops an interventionist account of actu...

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On Actual Causation, Part II | wiplash

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Pittsburgh History and Philosophy of Science Work in Progress Blog. Laquo; On Actual Causation, Part I. On Actual Causation, Part III. On Actual Causation, Part II. May 2, 2009. Now, consider three voting scenarios: two-candidate, simple-majority elections. Abstentions; two-candidate, simple-majority elections. All three election scenarios share the structure pictured in Figure 2 below. In this figure, each vote (or voter) is labeled with a V. It also assumes, sometimes reasonably and sometimes not, that...

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Experimental Philosophy of Consciousness at Consciousness Online | wiplash

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Pittsburgh History and Philosophy of Science Work in Progress Blog. Laquo; How to solve the regress of justification problem: justification as a three-valued variable. Experimental Philosophy of Consciousness at Consciousness Online. February 20, 2009. I currently have a multimedia presentation up as part of the Consciousness Online. Conference. The title of the talk is “Folk Psychology and Phenomenal Consciousness” and it can be viewed, along with a commentary by Adam Arico, here. Do you think it is pos...

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Absent Relations: A Critical Look at Rovelli’s Relational Quantum Mechanics | wiplash

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Pittsburgh History and Philosophy of Science Work in Progress Blog. Laquo; On Actual Causation, Part III. Producing a Robust Body of Data with a Single Technique. Absent Relations: A Critical Look at Rovelli’s Relational Quantum Mechanics. September 21, 2009. John S. Bell, ‘Against Measurement’ (1990). Rather than ‘Why the quantum? Timpson claims that the information in any such interpretation must either be about the values that a quantity takes prior to measurement (hidden variables), or the measuremen...

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On Actual Causation, Part III | wiplash

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Pittsburgh History and Philosophy of Science Work in Progress Blog. Laquo; On Actual Causation, Part II. Absent Relations: A Critical Look at Rovelli’s Relational Quantum Mechanics. On Actual Causation, Part III. May 24, 2009. In the case of two-candidate, simple-majority elections with abstentions, whether or not our intuitions support the claim that abstentions are actual causes depends on the cover story one tells. If seven voters support candidate. Three voters support candidate. Enter your comment h...