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Drowning in spam
07/09/14
I have had several dozen items of comment spam appear throughout the site in the last 24 hours. I have temporarily turned turned off comments in order to put a lid on it.
Update: I have upgraded to the latest version of SimplePHPBlog and turned comments back on. I've activated modera -
Lo, Quine!
07/09/13
In Theories and Things and Perspectives on Quine, Quine defines an observation sentence for an individual in this way:If querying the sentence elicits assent from the given speaker on one occasion, it will elicit assent likewise on any occasion when the same total set of receptors is triggered; and -
Watch Thag simulate the world
07/09/07
Scholars typically explain the demise of the Neanderthals by claiming that they were better suited for colder climates and so died out when the Ice Age ended. They had bigger brains than Homo sapiens, however, and so they probably could have still out-thought us. Their cleverness suggests other poss -
New draft on theories
07/09/07
I've wanted to write this paper for quite some time, but the material from different areas has failed to cohere on the previous occasions when I've tried to write it. Now I finally have a complete draft.
What SPECIES can teach us about THEORY
ABSTRACT: This paper argues aga -
Duhem? I never even...
07/09/04
I am teaching Poincar and Duhem in seminar this week. They are both so sensible that reading them elicits a twinge of despair at how little progress has been made in philosophy of science since. They were ahead of their time, of course, and there have been some real advances. This is not a post abo
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