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They're still in danger. (Thanks to Ross McKinney for the pointer.)...

Italian mathematician and philosopher born in 1718 is credited with writing first book discussing differential and integral calculus Google's doodle on Friday celebrated the 296th birthday of the Italian mathematician and philosopher Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Agnesi, born on 16 May 1718, is believed to be the first woman in the west to gain recognition as a mathematician, at a time when most Europeans...

English: AR Drone part (Photo credit: Wikipedia) When a new technology emerges it is not uncommon for people to claim that the technology is outpacing ethics and law. Because of the nature of law (at least in countries like the United States) it is very easy for technology to outpace the law. However, it is rather difficult for technology to truly outpace ethics. One reason for this is that any adequate...

After studying philosophy, I am now so skeptical of everything that I no longer know what I should believe in. I have no idea whom I should vote for in election or whether I should be voting at all, what religion I ought to believe in if any at all, why I should bother getting married, or even why I should bother getting out of bed in the mornings. Have you found that philosophy leads to more skepticism...

One of the obvious ways computers are limited is in their representation of numbers. Since computers represent numbers as bit strings of finite length, they can only represent finitely many, and to a finite degree of precision. Is it a mistake to think the humans, unlike computers, can represent infinitely many numbers with arbitrary precision? We obviously talk about things like the set of all real...

The Columbia student newspaper dismissed a reporter after an "anonymous" accusation of sexual wrongdoing. Unless there's more to the story, the editors responsible for this decision should themselves be dismissed. (IHE uses, aptly, the "vigilante" word to decribe what's going......

[New Entry by Peter Simons on May 15, 2014.] Jan Łukasiewicz (1878 - 1956) was a Polish logician and philosopher who introduced mathematical logic into Poland, became the earliest founder of the Warsaw school of logic, and one of the principal architects and teachers of that school. His most famous achievement was to give the first rigorous formulation of many-valued logic. He introduced many improvements...

Causation has (has it?) an essential relation to time. If some event caused some other event, then the former was previous. But we hear from scientists that time is just one dimension of space-time and indeed that there may be (or might have been) some more dimensions, other than space and time. Should there be analogues of causation related to the other dimensions? Should there be a wider category...

2014.05.17 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews Patrick R. Frierson, Kant's Questions: What is the Human Being?, Routledge, 2013, 322pp., $31.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780415558457. Reviewed by Tim Jankowiak, Towson University This is a book about Kant's theory of human nature -- his "anthropology" -- and about the legacy of this theory in the 20th century. The first half...

The popularity of pets, nature films, zoos, wildlife tourism show how much we like to look at animals. Why? Evolution has an answer… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...

Even Germaine Greer, that curmudgeonly old feminist (her words!), has found cause to rejoice: Glossy women’s magazines are on the wane… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...

Camus’s contemporaries were enthralled by abstraction and absolute ideas. But he rejected all of that for the messiness of reality… more» Continue reading . . . News source: Arts & Letters Daily ...

2014.05.18 : View this Review Online View Recent NDPR Reviews David Bakhurst, Brad Hooker, and Margaret Olivia Little (eds.), Thinking about Reasons: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Dancy, Oxford University Press, 2013, 349pp., $99.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780199604678. Reviewed by Johannes Roessler, University of Warwick This volume comprises fourteen essays about issues from Jonathan Dancy's...

And now the European Union is forcing them to live up to it....

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In the brief section of the PGR on MA programs, in addition to listing terminal MA programs with unusually strong faculties, the PGR has also included the following remarks about MA programs in PhD-granting departments: Many Ph.D. programs also admit......

[Revised entry by Chris Fraser on May 14, 2014. Changes to: Bibliography] Mohism was an influential philosophical, social, and religious movement that flourished during the Warring States era (479 - 221 BCE) in ancient China. Mohism originates in the teachings of Mo Di, or "Mozi" ("Master Mo," fl. ca. 430 BCE), from whom it takes its name. Mozi and his followers initiated philosophical argumentation...