I tend to bookmark some blog posts that I find interesting in the hopes that I’d some day get around to commenting on them on my own blog. Most of the time that doesn’t happen, or by the time I get around to it the posts are quite old. But that doesn’t mean that it [...]
My sister pointed me towards this BBC Radio 4 podcast in The Infinite Monkey Cage series (Mon 6th December 2010 edition). It seems to have been prompted by Stephen Hawking’s comments to the effect that philosophy is dead in his recent book. A rather superficial discussion, although Julian Baggini and Raymond Tallis clarify some of [...]
Nigel Warburton and James Ladyman discuss the prospects of popularizing philosophy here (a BBC article and BBC Radio 4 clip). Nothing particularly surprising there — Warburton, who is behind the Philosophy Bites podcasts and is publishing a related book is very optimistic about making philosophy intelligible for the layman, whereas Ladyman, whose work is primarily [...]
I came across Lee Smolin’s work while researching a paper which I’ve mentioned here before, i.e., ‘In Search of a Fundamental Level’. It was Smolin’s work on Loop Quantum Gravity which interested me. The paper still needs a lot of work and I hope to test some of the ideas at the Structure and Identity [...]
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