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What if nobody came?

Posted in Philosophy on July 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »

There’s been a mildly interesting thread on the Australian philosopher’s email list (aphil-l) lately. Apparently some fellow paid his own way to the annual conference being held in a small, remote town in NSW all prepared to give his ground-breaking talk on some obscure topic in aesthetics. On the day, nobody showed up to listen [...]

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Wise vs Smart

Posted in Decision Making, Philosophy, Reasoning, Software Startup on February 28, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Paul Graham has an interesting post, Is It Worth Being Wise?, where he addresses what wisdom is, and how it differs from (“merely”) being smart or intelligent. He dismisses two supposedly-popular accounts: wisdom applies to human problems, and intelligence to abstract ones wisdom comes from experience, while intelligence is innate. He suggests an alternative: “wise” [...]

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Talk at Victorian Skeptics

Posted in Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Research, Skepticism on February 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Anyone likely to be in Melbourne on Feb 19 is welcome to join the Victorian Skeptics for an informal talk: The abstract is Academic philosophers, like most professionals, think they’re pretty good at what they do. I’ll present some general reasons for scepticism on this score. Then I’ll focus on one particular respect in which [...]

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Well, what did you expect?

Posted in Philosophy on January 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Ask a philosopher why one should study philosophy, and you’re likely to get an answer only a philosopher would pretend to understand: “If you ought to philosophize you ought to philosophize; and if you ought not to philosophize you ought to philosophize: therefore, in any case you ought to philosophize. For if philosophy exists, we [...]

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