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From a small corner of Cambridge, 9

19. July 2020 Philosophy News News
What news from the Rialto? Who knows? We are still avoiding the Rialto. As indeed are most of our friends. The hopelessly wavering and confused messaging from the  government, its perceived incompetence, has engendered among our generation very little confidence … Continue reading → The post From a small corner of Cambridge, 9 appeared first on Logic [More]
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Three philosophical problems for curious people [reading list]

19. July 2020 Philosophy News News
It is part of human nature to be curious and to want to know or learn something. There are papers that fulfil this yen for knowledge and explore some of the more unusual philosophical questions that you never knew you wanted to know the answer to, for example; What did the tortoise say to Achilles […] The post Three philosophical problems for curious people [reading list] appeared first on OUPblog.         Related StoriesA philosopher’s perspective on the cruelty of Donald Trump’s immigration policiesSix books to help us understand eating disordersWhat face masks and sex scandals have in [More]
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Natural Theology and Natural Religion

17. July 2020 Philosophy News News
[Revised entry by Andrew Chignell and Derk Pereboom on July 17, 2020. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html] The term "natural religion" is sometimes taken to refer to a pantheistic doctrine according to which nature itself is divine. "Natural theology", by contrast, originally referred to (and still sometimes refers to)[1] the project of arguing for the existence of God on the basis of observed natural [More]
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The End of an Age: The Failure of Catastrophism

16. July 2020 Philosophy News News
Colin Campbell, the founder of the association for the study of peak oil and gas (ASPO) explaining the essence of oil depletion. The considerations below originate from a post by Michael Krieger where he describes how he is so dismayed by the reaction of the public to the current epidemic that he is closing his blog to rethink the whole matter over. You can read of similar feelings in a post by Rob Slane of the "Blogmire" and of Chris Smaje on "Resilience." Many others are dismayed at how badly the Covid-19 crisis was managed: a threat that was real but by all measures not so terrible as it was described. Nevertheless, it generated an overreaction, more division than unity, political sectarianism, counterproductive behaviors, and it ultimately led people to accept to be bullied and mistreated by their governments and even to be happy about that.The "peak oil movement" was started by a group of retired geologists around the end of the 1990s. You could call us "catastrophists," but catastrophe was not what we were aiming for. We were not revolutionaries, we never thought to storm the Bastille, to give power to the people, or to create a proletarian paradise. We were scientists, we just wanted society to get rid of fossil fuels as soon as possible, although we did think that the final result would have been a more just and peaceful society.  But how to reach this goal? Of course, we understood that humankind is nothing homogeneous, but we saw no reason why the people in [More]
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Exercises!

16. July 2020 Philosophy News News
Thirty-six of the chapters in IFL2 have end-of-chapter exercises. Thirty-one of these  sets of exercises now have on-line answers, often with quite detailed discussion, available here. That includes all the chapters up to and including the chapters on QL proofs. … Continue reading → The post Exercises! appeared first on Logic [More]
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