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Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 -- May 26, 1976) was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "...

How to make snazzy-lookin' fractal equations using simple algebra.

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There's an argument for the existence of Platonic Forms that can be undermined in a similar way that Russell's Paradox undermines the idea that, fo...

Pseudocode for the arithmetic coding decoder, using finite-precision.

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Understand the intuition behind e: 100% continuous growth. See http://betterexplained.com/... f...

A critique on the paradigms of Einstein's Relativity of Simultaneity train thought experiment, the Lorentz contraction, the light clock and velocit...

Is the relativity of simultaneity of Einstein's relativity theories consistent with the absolute simultaneity of the growing block universe theory ...

I don't seem to have recorded many happy songs. So my Saturday evening project was a happy song. This was written by a friend of mine (who prefers ...

So, who would most likely be responsible for Leviticus 25:44-46, a Lord of Love, or a demonic Satan?

By their fruits shall ye know them: and thin...

Symbolization exercise 11 from packet page 5.11

"Nobody has conversations with everybody who murders somebody"

Key:

Domain: people

Cxy: x has conversations with y

Mxy: x murders y

~(∃x)(∀y)(∀z)...

A student explains why he wants to study philosophy.

The definition of a valid argument is that it's not possible for all of its premises to be true while its conclusion is false. It trivially follows...

Dialogue about G. E. Moore's famous proof, using the following passages from his article, "Proof of an External World":

"proof of the existence of...

Does anyone ever persist? If so, by virtue of what? This video examines a problem with memory theories.

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Anarchist philosopher Crispin Sartwell describes a brief encounter that transforms his life by leading him to the contemplation of beauty. From th...

Searle's point is that computer programs don't have understanding because by the definition of "computer program" that he is operating with, they d...

McTaggart's argument that time is unreal

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A movement similar in some ways to Occupy Wall Street

Life and work of Sartre

Wittgenstein's Vienna

A short excerpt from a 1969 interview with Paul Ricoeur.

Translated by Kris Pender and Philippe Salmon.

A key theoretical offshoot of modernism is structuralism. Originating in the linguistic studies of Saussure, it reached its full flowering in the h...

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Willard Van Orman Quine, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, has been described as the "greatest living English-speaking philosopher". In thi...