Philosophy Now Forum

This place is just totally retarded! Have a good one everyone!~ I'm not making any further contributions. Have fun talking about "the think in itself" and the "phenomenalism"!

Lets take an example from Brian Greene then since you appear to have read his books and see if we can advance the discussion. In one of the books (can't remember which one), he gives the following example of an experiment done to support the theory of relativity. Two state of the art clocks were use...

Regarding Kant, he held that space and time were "a priori" and that our mind supplied these aspects of reality. That seems to fly in the face of Einstein's relativity Scientists and clinical researchers like Oliver Sacks have pretty much wrapped-up that the brain produces its own sense o...

A description of the laws of the universe is an explanation. If it makes you happy then it is enough. And due to symmetry, we know that the laws we discover apply not only to our little corner of the galaxy but also to galaxies millions of light years away and probably to the whole universe. The wo...

Hawking didn't say that "Philosophy was dead". He said that "it wasn't necessary to explain the universe" and that the discussions philosophers engage in seem increasingly outdated. At first glance of the discussions on this board, I'd say that he is right on the money. Naturall...

Hawking didn't say that "Philosophy was dead". He said that "it wasn't necessary to explain the universe" and that the discussions philosophers engage in seem increasingly outdated. At first glance of the discussions on this board, I'd say that he is right on the money. Naturally...