Listen to T.S.E. here. A little known fact, at least amongst those who come to TSE through his poetry, is that T.S.E. wrote his doctoral dissertation on F.H. Bradley, a copy of which I read some 25 years ago. Here is an article on the relationship between T.S.E. and Russell. F. H. BradleyLiteratureLove Song of…
Philosopher of mind, Tim Crane, on religion and evidence in The New York Times. For what it’s worth I have repeatedly said that epistemologically speaking, the concept of God does not achieve enough clarity and distinctness to be discussable. When we cite the divine attributes—omniscience, omnipotence, and so on—I do not think we have the least purchase on…
On hearing that Simon’s “thinking machine” computer program Logic Theorist not only validated Russell and Whitehead’s axioms and theorems (but even proved one more elegantly), Russell replied: “I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. I [only] wish Whitehead and I had known of this possibility before we both…
Simon Critchley in The New York Times. See Leiter’s critical take on Critchley.
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