A pragmatic one and a platonic one, and why I prefer the pragmatic one. —

What is a dot? What is a number? What is an intersection? — What is a dot? What is a number? What is an intersection? How is an intersection possible? Should physicists provide an explanation? Should they explain everything that occurs in mathematics? Some physicists affirm yes, while others argue the opposite. Many mathematicians, on the other hand, aren’t concerned with either physics…

Would they understand Sartre or Plato? Wouldn’t it be dangerous to teach them philosophy? — Can we teach ethics to robots? This question presents many challenges. For example, do we know everything we need to know about ethics? The answer to this question is far from being solved. However, someone may still argue: “Oh, but robots are not humans, so our social rules shouldn’t be applied to them!” That is incorrect…

Step by step on how to give your movie or TV show review a special place on the internet. — Why IMDB? Why Professional Critic Review? IMDb (Internet Movie Database) is an extremely renowned online database that offers information about movies, TV shows, actors, filmmakers, and other industry professionals. It is widely recognized as one of the most popular and reliable sources for movie and TV-related content.

On avoiding fallacies and practicing hermeneutics. — Original Philosophy A space on Medium for serious philosophers to post their research and thinking for a broader audience.medium.com What philosophy is about? Science, including philosophy, concerns itself with finding proof. Okay. But what do we do with proofs? What do we do after we have found evidence of something? They say Edison tried 1000 times to invent the light bulb. Should he have stopped trying after his first failure? Maybe after his…

An excellent, funny, and tense show that was very well crafted and geared toward a male audience, and reached 8.6 points on IMDB. — James Joyce's’ Ulysses with action scenes So many things could be said about this show, but none of them would do justice to its nuances. From a very short-sighted point of view, this series may seem like just another commercial directed toward men. If you light a cigarette, drink a beer, kill, drive a car, punch…

NYU professor Tim Maudlin on the foundations of quantum mechanics. — Schrödinger once said, “The Greeks knew everything,” or something like that. He actually wrote: It is my opinion that the philosophy of the ancient Greeks attracts us at this moment, because never before or since, anywhere in the world, has anything like their highly advanced and articulated system of knowledge…

The philosophical position that asserts the existence of true contradictions or “dialetheias.” — Introduction Dialetheism is a philosophical position that asserts the existence of true contradictions or “dialetheias.” This view is opposed to the view that a statement cannot be both true and false at the same time. Dialetheism is derived from the Greek word “dia” meaning “both,” and “letheia” meaning “truth” or “disclosure.”

Two examples in favor of dialetheism, and two false paradoxes. —