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an informal philosophy blog by Gregg Shores

What’s your philosophy?

What’s your philosophy? One philosopher tells a story that when he gets this question at parties, he answers “Never wait…

Alex Rosenberg, alt-right, Bertrand Russell, Christof Koch, David Brooks, Michel Houellbecq, Sean Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Ricks, UFOs

Question and Answer

  BQTA presents a guest post by Carter Gillies Many people assume the idea of a question is getting to…

Wittgenstein

A Tree Falls

In his discussion of the science of color, Steve Palmer pointed out that the problem with color is “reminiscent of…

Color, Descartes, Dualism, Erwin Schrodinger, John Heil, Neurobiology, Sound, Stephen Palmer

Color and Shape

  If physics says that objects are not colored, and light is not colored, what is colored? On what is…

Bertrand Russell, Brian Cutter, Color, David Chalmers, John Locke, Stephen Palmer

The Science of Color

Sounds, colors, heat and cold, according to modern philosophy are not qualities in objects, but perceptions in the mind. David…

Color, Consciousness, Hume, Isaac Newton, Simon Blackburn, Stephen Palmer, Steven Shevell, UC Berkeley

The Philosophy Bloggers Pledge

Blogging is tough. How to communicate with an audience who does not want to communicate with you? Who does not…

As in a Mirror

  BQTA presents a guest post by Rick Lenon    The Ingmar Bergman film Through a Glass Darkly (Swedish: Såsom i…

Darwin, Guest Post, Rick Lenon

Star Trek Transporter pt 3, Mary the Super-scientist

  Meet Mary the Super-scientist. She is the world’s foremost authority on human vision, according to a famous thought experiment…

Eric Schwitzgebel, Henry Shevlin, Mary, Personal Identity, Star Trek, Transporter

Star Trek Transporter pt2, King of Planet X

Star Trek, Transporter

Star Trek Transporter, pt 1: original atoms or local materials?

A TV show about space exploration has a problem at the outset. You want your crew to be able to…

Sean Carroll, Star Trek, Transporter

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