MetaFilter posts tagged with philosophy and logic

I am a strange loop.

loquacious — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:30:41 -0800

Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid has been recorded as a series of video lectures for MIT's Open Courseware project.

David Foster Wallace on Fatalism

homunculus — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:05:19 -0800

Consider the Philosopher. The early metaphysical investigations of David Foster Wallace.

Divine instruments for self learning

generalist — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:59:48 -0800

Mnemonic Arts of Blessed Raymond LULL

Parmenides

homunculus — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:36:03 -0800

Parmenides. "The pre-Socratic philosopher sparked an intellectual revolution that still echoes today. Yet for philosophy and science to continue to progress in the 21st century, we may need to embark on an entirely new cognitive journey ."

free-willy?

saulgoodman — Wed, 23 May 2007 11:30:08 -0800

According to this guy, you’re not ultimately morally responsible for choosing whether to snark or not to snark in response to this FPP. A discussion of the philosophical problems surrounding freewill from British Analytic philosopher Galen Strawson. (Oh, and while we’re at it, let’s throw in this unrelated review of Strawson’s latest work on consciousness, just for an extra splash of color.)

Would the Algorithm of Fugue end with A B C?

Gyan — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:35:45 -0800

Douglas Hofstadter says, "What troubles me is the notion that things that touch me at my deepest core -- pieces of music most of all, which I have always taken as direct soul-to-soul messages -- might be effectively produced by mechanisms thousands if not millions of times simpler than the intricate biological machinery that gives rise to a human soul.". That was prompted by his reception to the output of David Cope's project Experiments in Musical Intelligence.

Can a xlqp make a btzl?

brownpau — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:46:57 -0800

Can God make a rock so heavy that he could not lift it?

Dissecting Humor

Falconetti — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:54:35 -0800

Nothing is funnier than an academic or scientist explaining humor .

Nature of Mathematical Truth

Gyan — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:24:24 -0800

Gödel and the Nature of Mathematical Truth : A Talk with Verena Huber-Dyson

You can't prove this title wasn't an attempt to illustrate Godel

Gyan — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 02:59:04 -0800

Godel's theorems have been used to extrapolate a great many "truths" about the world. Torkel Franzen sets the record straight in his new book Godel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse. Read the introduction (PDF). If you want, check out his explanation of the theorems.