The word ‘metaphysics’ is not easy to define. It is derived from a collective title of the fourteen books by Aristotle that we use to call nowadays “Aristotle’s Metaphysics.”
However, Aristotle himself did not know the word. He had four names for the branch of philosophy that is the subject-matter of Metaphysics: ‘first philosophy’, ‘first science’, [...]
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14 Dec 09
To read more about a critical view on what occurs daily at the laboratory bench or
in the interactions between scientists in the pursuit of their goals,
this book by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar is a real eye-opener.
Much of the mistakes that are made behind the screens is unknown to the public.
Scientists do blunder from time to time, sometimes good [...]
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Posted in Science
24 Nov 09
The sublime, which Edmund Burke examines in his major work A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) is one of the most intriguing terms in the field of aesthetic judgements. It suggests grandeur, vastness, awe and immense power when invoked to define the quality of a great literary or [...]
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Posted in Aesthetics
19 Nov 09
Moon is a 2009 science fiction/psychological thriller film about a solitary lunar employee who experiences a personal crisis as the end of his three-year stint nears.
Sam Bell is an employee contracted by the company Lunar Industries to extract helium-3 from lunar soil for much-needed clean energy back on Earth. He is stationed for three years [...]
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Posted in Ethics
17 Nov 09
Wonder… and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
By Adam Smith 1723-1790, Scottish philosopher and economist
Essays on Philosophical Subjects (1795) ‘The History of Astronomy’ [...]
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Posted in Philosophy
