Category: Scientism
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Why Do Some Physicists Talk Nonsense about Nothing?
Wherein I shovel some (un?)seriously scientistic caca into the sewer of nada.
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Is Neuroscience Relevant to Understanding Prayer and Meditation?
Substack latest. If you can poke a hole in anything I say, I'll buy you lunch when next our paths cross.
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Will Science Put Religion out of Business?
A tilt at transhumanism. Substack latest.
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Can Consciousness be Explained?
Top o' the Stack. Dennett debunked!
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Conscience, Brain, and Scientistic Pseudo-Understanding
Substack latest. If nothing else, philosophy is prophylaxis against infection by scientistic pseudo-understanding. Take the jab! Boosters to follow.
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Could Free Will be an Illusion?
Science journalists shovel a lot of bull crap anent this topic. I debunk their sophistry. Substack latest.
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A Per Impossibile Counterfactual
It is equally true that if science could get rid of consciousness, it would thereby get rid of itself.
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Information Realism?
Physicists love to play the philosopher, and when they do the result is often nonsense. A recent example is the so-called information realism of physicist Max Tegmark. Here is the gist of it: . . . according to information realists, matter arises from information processing, not the other way around. Even mind—psyche, soul—is supposedly a…
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Schlick’s Scientism: An Antilogism
Remember Moritz Schlick? He wrote, "All real problems are scientific questions; there are no others." ("The Future of Philosophy" in The Linguistic Turn, ed. R. Rorty). The Schlickian dictum sires an antilogism. 1) All real problems are scientific. 2) The problem whether all real problems are scientific is real. 3) The problem whether all real…
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More Bad Philosophy of Mind by a Scientist
Christof Koch: I was raised to believe in God, the Trinity, and particularly the Resurrection. Unfortunately, I now know four words: “No brain, never mind.” That’s bad news. Once my brain dies, unless I can somehow upload it into the Cloud, I die with it. I wish it were otherwise, but I’m not going to…
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A Frustrating Discussion with a Non-Philosopher about Stephen Hawking
Ed reports on a recent trip to Africa: I didn’t run into any philosophers, but there was a chap I met over dinner who was banging on about Stephen Hawking. I have a strict rule never to discuss philosophy with anyone who has no obvious training in the subject, but he was insistent, and I…
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Conscience, Brain, and Scientistic Pseudo-Understanding
Here at Maverick Philosopher: Strictly Philosophical
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Krauss Canned
Unable to control the fire down below, the outspoken atheist, well-known physicist, and "professional amateur philosopher" (to cop a brilliancy from Ed Feser) Lawrence Krauss has been handed his walking papers by Arizona State University. Good riddance. One of the tasks of philosophy is to debunk bad philosophy of the sort purveyed by Krauss &…
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Why Do Physicists Write Popular Garbage?
To make money, and because writing bad philosophy is easy while doing good physics is hard. Latest example to come to my attention. It appears in that noted philosophy journal, Financial Times. I've had it with refuting this crap. I used to think it was worth doing, but no longer. It is like evaluating a…