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The time has come, my nerdy friends: Start up your text-editing programmes and break out the papers!
This month's topic is: Debunk a popular misconception.
Do we really only use ten percent of our brain? Are humans a "Blank Slate" at birth or not? Is ...
Started by #1 on
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by 19 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at rationalskepticism):
In science, a Scientific Theory are actually different but equally accurate concepts ....
Evolution is as real an altogether different and far more substantial meaning .
And as solid as anything you’re likely to find in the realm of science.
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Quote: : Lawrence Krauss: another physicist with an anti-philosophy complex
by Massimo Pigliucci
I don’t know what’s the matter with physicists these days. It used to be that they were an intellectually sophisticated bunch, with the likes of Einstein ...
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at politicsforum):
Per Dawkins, without any discernible education in philosophy, seem confident in dismissing philosophy atleast two years....
science proves things , right?
Wrong...hence the whole philosophy of science discipline.
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The study of Samkhya philosophy is important because its metaphysics are pervasive in Indian philosophy. Yoga philosophy in particular is closely related to Samkhya. Therefore understanding Indian philosophy in general and Yoga philosophy in particular...
Started by Asuri on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at yogaforums):
Who exactly does 'the perfected one' refer to? The commentator Aniruddha had a slightly different usually is a sore point with me with Asuri on Indian philosophy as I feel that he mixes his own opinions and interpretations with the actual....
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Maybe I don't have a problem with philosophy. Maybe it's just because I run into about one poster a year who thinks their "mastery" of philosophy somehow trumps my understanding of logic, math and physics.
To begin with, the present user tries to distinguish...
Started by rpenner on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at sciforums):
Even in the philosophy of science, knowledge of math and physics doesn't mean that a philospher....
If anything, philosophy should work to reconcile itself with advancements in science problems, and vice versa.
Of philosophy.
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Let's face the truth - there is no room for philosophers today. Only centuries ago one could be both a poet and a warrior, a scientist and a priest, a philosopher and a King. Rulers of past civilizations have often needed the counsel of philosophers. ...
Started by barcelonic on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at ilovephilosophy):
It's best to live your philosophy; teach your children through example, and defend them against the world be able to describe your everyday experiences without philosophy, and even with it we still need to learn more philosophy....
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Philosophy and Vain Deceit ~
"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." (Colossians 2:8)
~~~It is bound to be significant that, in the only place...
Started by Abigail on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at orbisvitae):
All men are either born with or acquire immediately after birth the fundamentals... .
Counterfeit science and philosophy are to be avoided.
Real philosophy can only point us to the truth, just like real science.
Stick to the true meaning.
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Philosophy and Vain Deceit ~
"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." (Colossians 2:8)
~~~It is bound to be significant that, in the only place...
Started by Abigail on
, 28 posts
by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at orbisvitae):
All men are either born with or acquire immediately after birth the fundamentals... .
Counterfeit science and philosophy are to be avoided.
Real philosophy can only point us to the truth, just like real science.
Stick to the true meaning.
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On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:00:31 -0700 (PDT), Monica <yanowis@gmail.com
Teaching indigenous philosophy and culture
Originally printed at http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/home/content/50130837.html
Dr. Esther Balboa is an internationally known Quechua...
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Therefore, this notion of somehow all
natives specially
refer to "native American.
They were
never refer as one themselves.
Colonialism when
every tribe were virtually indigenous and so different.
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Hi.
So physics and philosophy are my two most deepest interests in this world (and others). I was wondering if I could double major it? In practice I want to be a physicist, so I know I'm headed for the PhD route with that. But I also want to major in...
Started by Peteer on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at collegeconfidential):
Some schools with departments/programs in the history and/or philosophy humanities, natural....
For:
* the physics major
* the philosophy major
* breadth or general education requirements
* minus and philosophy of science.
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Given the recent excitement over the President's supposed 'Marxism', I thought it would be enlightening to go through each of Marx's books and pick out the core themes of each work and try to contextualize them. All of Marx's works are in the public domain...
Started by Beet on
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by 2 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at uselectionatlas):
The Young Marx, Part II....
To the philosophy Marx was later to lend his name to - in fact, Marx's earliest liberalism is little and Hegel himself.
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