If there’s one thing I learned from Francis Collins’ _The Language of God_, it’s that being famous lets you get away with being lazy. The book is heavy on fluff, light on clear views, and downright embarrassing in some points with the lack of research and effort to understand what Collins’ opponents are saying. Nice [...]
Category Archives: physics
Mind Body Problem II: The modern debate
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 1, 2008
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In today’s lecture, I want to cover two things: first, modern, more scientifically oriented motivations for rejecting dualism. Second, consciousness, why many philosophers consider it a problem, and why some philosophers think it may provide the basis for a non-Cartesian form of dualism. I mentioned last lecture that Leibniz worried about Descartes’ dualism on the [...]
Computer day in chemistry class
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 28, 2008
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This is a Science Sunday post, and a follow up to last week’s. But, after thinking awhile about how to talk about what I wanted to talk about, I decided a somewhat different approach than I’d normally use for writing about science. Here it goes. Been nearly a year since I’ve taken any chemistry class. [...]
Sunday on a Monday: the hydrogen molecule
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 21, 2008
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>>>This is a Science Sunday post, delayed for a day due to unforseen circumstances. I found myself a little short of time Sunday, and decided to delay for a day rather than hastily whipping up something crappy.<<< Probably, at some point in your life you’ve seen someone take a long stick with a flame on [...]