This will be of interest to many philosophers. Arthur Shapiro, an associate professor at Bucknell, has started an Illusions Blog. You’re gonna get a new illusion every week. Awesome. [HT: Cognitive Daily]… Continue Reading
This will be of interest to many philosophers. Arthur Shapiro, an associate professor at Bucknell, has started an Illusions Blog. You’re gonna get a new illusion every week. Awesome. [HT: Cognitive Daily]… Continue Reading
…and yes some poor student took a bite. Fortunately, the student wasn’t injured. [HT: A Philosophy Job Market Blog]… Continue Reading
Here’s one standard way to formulate the skeptical paradox. I know that I have hands. I don’t know I’m not a brain-in-a-vat. If I don’t know that I’m not a brain-in-a-vat, then I don’t know that I have hands. These three sentences cannot all be true, and yet each one seems plausible. Here are the… Continue Reading
Isn’t this picture amazing? The newspaper running this story claims that this is the first time an orangutan has been spotted using a tool to hunt. If you read the article it turns out that he’s not very good at it, but it’s pretty impressive none the less. There are a lot of areas in… Continue Reading
Joshua Thurow is here for our second set of lectures in the Young Philosophers Lecture Series. He gave a great talk yesterday developing and defending BonJour’s Generality Argument for the conclusion that we have some a priori knowledge. Today he is giving an introductory level talk titled “Is Morality Real, or Do We Make it… Continue Reading
The article is two years old, so this may not be news to some people – but it’s a pretty interesting breakdown of the percentage of people who accept evolution by country. That graphic to your left is from the livescience.com article. It’s pretty amazing where the US is on that graphic. Evolution is, of… Continue Reading
I’m hoping readers will oblige me with a little intuition check. Consider the following scenario. Cross-Check Your Perception with Another Person’s PerceptionYou seem to see a tiger. You’re very surprised to see a tiger. They don’t live around these parts. You ask a friend. Do you seem to see a tiger. Your friend says, “Yes.… Continue Reading