Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 71
Jul 28, 2024
Archaeologists make stunning underwater discovery of ancient mosaic in sea off Italy
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
The discovery includes “thousands of marble slabs” in “hundreds of different shapes” found in a submerged ancient city.
Jul 28, 2024
Surprising element found in traces of Tycho Brahe’s alchemy lab confounds scientists
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Renaissance astronomer Tycho Brahe, known for his studies of the heavens, was also a alchemist. A new study of glass shards reveals what Brahe was working with in his lab.
Jul 28, 2024
Dutch Chemists Finally Work Out How Rembrandt Achieved the Golden Lustre in His ‘The Night Watch’ Painting
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Researchers in Amsterdam discover how Rembrantd made the golden pigment in The Night Watch.
Jul 28, 2024
Solar flare eruption breaks records for sun’s current cycle
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
The X14-class solar flare, which erupted from the opposite side of the sun, was the most powerful of this solar cycle so far.
Jul 27, 2024
Jurassic fossil juvenile reveals prolonged life history in early mammals
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Juvenile and adult skeletons of Middle Jurassic Krusatodon from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, show that this mouse-sized mammaliaform had longer development and lifespan than modern mammals of similar mass.
Discussion surrounding the question, “What is real?” at the Moving Naturalism Forward workshop, October 2012. Participants include Sean Carroll, Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, Terrence Deacon, Simon DeDeo, Daniel Dennett, Owen Flangan, Rebecca Goldstein, Janna Levin, David Poeppel, Massimo Pigliucci, Nicholas Pritzker, Alex Rosenberg, Don Ross, and Steven Weinberg. Visit https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/.… more information.
In this interview, I talk with Dr. Graham Oppy about his understanding of metaphysical naturalism. He defends the thesis that natural reality is coextensive with causal reality such that there are no causal entities that are non-natural.
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Jul 27, 2024
Informal Hour ep. 6 — Eliminativism, Content and Truth with Alex Rosenberg (Part 1)
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
Jul 27, 2024
Eliminativism — The Radical Philosophy of the Mind
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
Eliminativism is a radical philosophical theory that holds that certain folk psychological concepts, such as beliefs, desires, and emotions, do not exist. Eliminativists argue that these concepts are either false or useless, and that we should eliminate them from our scientific and philosophical vocabulary.
This video will explore the philosophy of eliminativism in detail. We will discuss the arguments for and against eliminativism, as well as the implications of eliminativism for our understanding of the mind.