Do you think these two philosophers have much in common? They both despise Plato and his abstract philosophy, Nietzsche’s story of the madman has elements of the story of Diogenes walking through a marketplace holding a lamp in the day time looking for a honest man. Diogenes was very in touch with the natural world […]
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Unlike in the past, today’s focus is on academic philosophy rather than what I call Socratic philosophy or an authentic quest for truth. This causes me to wonder about the future of meaningful philosophy, a philosophy that changes the life of the inquirer as opposed to playing intellectual gymnastics. Thanks to academic philosophy, most see […]
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Wittgenstein asserts that claims like “here is a hand” or “the world has existed for more than five minutes” have the form of empirical propositions but that in fact they have more in common with logical propositions. That is, these sorts of propositions may seem to say something factual about the world, and hence be […]
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What is game theory? Game theory is the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers. Games are used to heuristically (test methods in a controlled environment) expose possible problems in economics, sociology, law and general philosophy. It is part of Logic. Prisoners’ dilemma Prisoners’ dilemma is perhaps the most well […]