From the same it proceedeth, that men give different names, to one and the same thing, from the difference of their own passions: As they that approve a private opinion, call it Opinion; but they that mislike it, Haeresie: and yet haeresie signifies no more than private opinion; but has onely a greater tincture of [...]
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Free Will
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 16, 2008
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Today, just like last time, we’re talking about a metaphysical topic that has implications for ethics: free will. We think free will is important for moral responsibility: if someone doesn’t do something of their own free will, they can’t be held morally responsible for it. These ethical implications bleed over into philosophy of religion: many [...]
Quote of the Time Being
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 2, 2008
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In any other field, when historians don’t know the exact year a book was written, they determine a terminus post quem (“point after which,” also written terminus a quo) and a terminus ante quem (“point before which,” also written terminus ad quem) and then conclude the book was written sometime between those two years. And [...]
Psychology, grammar, and moral confusion
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 6, 2008
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And this Science Sunday, time for something completely different. I’ve been focusing on neuroscience stuff, but I’ve decided to take a break from this to talk about moral psychology. It feels very odd doing this, because this will seem to bleed over into philosophy, and though I could try to avoid this, I admit I [...]
Quote of the Time Being
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 12, 2008
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In the future, there will be a superconnected global network of billions of adding machines, each one of which has more power than all pre-1901 adding machines put together. One of the primary uses of this network will be to transport moving pictures of lesbian sex by pretending they are made out of numbers. -Eliezer [...]