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Student: I’d just like to know your position on this issue, that’s all. Bostrom: I don’t know. It seems pretty saintly never to look down on anybody, and never to hope that somebody else will look up to one. Maybe it’s good for somebody to be saintly in this way. Hard to know what the world would look like if people were universally like that. Sinc
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Karen Barad:https://philosophy.ucsc.edu/faculty/index.php?uid=kbarad
Richard Brautigan
Turing
Lewis Fry Richardson
Ernst Haekel
Heidi Appel
A reductionist thinks that science is about analysing things into components. An instrumentalist thinks that it is about predicting things.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
a long response to Reiner Schürmann’s question “What is to be done at the end of metaphysics?”
Joeri Schrijvers • Between Faith and Belief: Toward a Contemporary Phenomenology of Religious Life (SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought)
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Modern universalisms seek to justify their vision as non-particularistic as well as non-transcendent. Let us start by assessing whether this ambition can be sustained and if so whether their effectiveness can be retained.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
The right had a Critical Race Theory-like talking point: the academic left is poisoning young minds; there are stable truths.