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Philosophy Word of the Day – George Berkeley (1695-1753)
Image by jaycross via Flickr George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the great philosophers of the early modern period. He was a brilliant critic of his predecessors, particularly Descartes, Mal… more →
Cloud of Witnesses
Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals (Hume, David)
psriblog wrote 5 hours ago: Much like Galileo Galilei’s Two Chief Systems, reviewed earlier in these pages, Enquiries Conc … more →
Book Review: A Christmas Carol.
tychy wrote 1 week ago: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1843) begins with an insistence that Jacob Marley is as dead as … more →
list of posts from Dec. 3 to 8, 2009
adonis49 wrote 2 weeks ago: 581. Testing 3 thousand years of babbling; (Dec. 3, 2009) 582. “Sophie’s World” on David Hume; (De … more →
List of posts from Nov. 27 to Dec. 4, 2009
adonis49 wrote 2 weeks ago: 577. Climate change: Before Copenhagen; (Nov. 27, 2009) 578. “War on Rhetoric”; (Nov. 28, 2009) … more →
“Sophie’s World” on David Hume
adonis49 wrote 3 weeks ago: “Sophie’s World” on David Hume; (Dec. 4, 2009) I stumbled on “Sophie’s World” by Jostein Gaarder, on … more →
Testing 3 thousand years of babbling
adonis49 wrote 3 weeks ago: Testing 3 thousand years of babbling; (Dec. 3, 2009) Goethe said “he who cannot draw on three thousa … more →
Meditation XXIII, David Hume (1711-1776) – Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
jamesesz wrote 1 month ago: David Hume ~ When two people meet, they unconsciously affect one another in ways the mind cannot eve … more →
Psychology: The Beginnings
Ali Lochhead wrote 1 month ago: “Psychology as we know it didn’t suddenly appear on the intellectual scene. It is impos … more →
Richard Rorty on Human Rights and Sympathy
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Filip Spagnoli wrote 1 month ago: Richard Rorty (source) Richard Rorty has an interesting take on human rights. If we want universal a … more →
David Hume
Ali Lochhead wrote 1 month ago: “David Hume was born April 26, 1711 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father died the following yea … more →
Book Review: Michael Fry’s Edinburgh.
tychy wrote 1 month ago: Perhaps it takes balls to attempt a history of Edinburgh in less than four hundred pages, but it als … more →
"Lagom ciderfull"
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Lukas Slothuus wrote 1 month ago: Eros Ramazzotti, great pasta dishes, horrible white wine, David Hume, early Christian rant, Kumar wi … more →
David Hume on What to Get your Girl for the Holidays
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hbdgirl wrote 1 month ago: In David Hume’s Essay “Of the Study of History” he recommends that men purchase fo … more →
happy skeptic
osopher wrote 1 month ago: David Hume (1711-1776) was a wit, a good friend (especially to Rousseau, whom he helped escape Swiss … more →
Video of the second debate between Mike Licona and Bart Ehrman
Wintery Knight wrote 1 month ago: I was browsing on Mike’s web site and found links to these videos. Here they are: 4 videos in … more →
Book Review: What the Dog Saw
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Bob Morris wrote 1 month ago: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell Little, Brown & Company (2009) In this v … more →
Simon Blackburn On Philosophy's Contributions
Daniel Fincke wrote 1 month ago: In the UK, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills intends to assess “the benefits … more →
Hmm... What to do? What to do?
Robert Babington wrote 1 month ago: My social studies seminar lecturer is a woman named Laura Canning. She is a younger Meryl Streep loo … more →
Is it Possible to Be a Skeptic?
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Nick wrote 2 months ago: (1) Conscious beings are subjects. (2) Subjects view the world subjectively. (3) The world’s e … more →
