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Tim Maudlin on the training of physicists, the evolution of intelligence, and...
I had to link this interview with philosopher Tim Maudlin, in the Atlantic, when I read his observation that "The asking of fundamental physical questions is just not part of the training of a...
View ArticleNagel and DeLong I: Common Sense
Brad DeLong has been hammering --- perhaps even bashing --- away at Thomas Nagel's new book Mind and Cosmos (Oxford, 2012). Here's a link to his latest blow. I think Nagel's wrong on several key...
View ArticleNagel and Delong II: Fallibility and Transcendence
In my first post on Brad Delong's series of criticisms of Thomas Nagel's new book Mind and Cosmos I focused not on Brad's initial critcism but on a later post that seemed to be implying Nagel put too...
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