The Thought Criminal

"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it." Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010 LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE

Saturday, April 27, 2013

The Three Words That Materialists Find It So Hard To Say "I Don't Know"

A fter giving quite a long, rambling, somewhat snarky, and quite typically materialist debunking of the idea of free will, in which he make...

Friday, April 26, 2013

Every So Often You Just Have To Hear Hard Hearted Hannah

From The Philosophy of Physical Science by Arthur Stanley Eddington: Chapter II Selective Subjectivism

Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. ...

Thursday, April 25, 2013

About People Being Special and Thinking As Just Another Chemical Reaction

T here is something so weird about listening to a bunch of university professors, active and retired, who have chosen to fly in from all ove...

Against Sociobiology 1975

This was a letter published in the New York Review of Books on November 13, 1975. I was reminded of it, yet again, while reading about wh...

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Waist Deep: Wading Through Sludge of "Free Will" According to The "Free Thinkers"

I told you that I would write about the "Moving Naturalism Forward" discussions about free will and consciousness later this wee...

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Arthur Stanley Eddington: Science and the Unseen World Parts 8 and 9

Note: I'm posting the last two sections of Eddington's essay for those who want to finish it. I have said that the science of...

Arthur Stanley Eddington: Science And The Unseen World: part 7

W e want an assurance that the soul in reaching out to the unseen world is not following an illusion. We want security that faith, and wors...

Monday, April 22, 2013

Geri Allen Feed The Fire

Geri Allen - piano Ron Carter - bass Tony Williams - drums

Arthur Stanley Eddington: Science And The Unseen World: part 6

L et me play the role of materialist philosopher a few moments longer. The electric particles in obedience to the laws of physics have come...

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Atheism As Ultimate Intellectual Decadence

I will be spending some time with questions of free will and consciousness as discussed at Moving Naturalism Forward later this week. But...

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Mozart-Duo for Violin and Viola in G Major KV 423

Igor Oistrakh: violin David Oistrakh: viola

Friday, April 19, 2013

Rebecca Clarke Viola Sonata in A minor

Paul Coletti, viola Leslie Howard, piano

Materialism Is Quaint And So Ignorant Of Its Own Nature

Revised and updated below L istening to the "Moving Naturalism Forward" discussions, one of the most striking things is how ent...

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