Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - A reprise

[EternalOptimist]

FFS. are we supposed to judge the accuracy of AGW models by taking into account the parenting skills of the modellers ?



SaSGoru - you are rubbish

[NickFitz]

Perhaps I understand, but don't agree with the viewpoint.

Fair enough. Perhaps you can explain how you know that there is an external reality governed by physical laws, that exists independently of your perceptions?

You may want to wait until you get a bit further into the book: in particular, Kant's notion of the distinction between a posteriori and a priori knowledge, together with the relationship of that distinction to the distinction between contingent and necessary truths, will be useful in formulating your argument. (It's examined in Chapter 11.)

[RichardCranium]

Gentlemen, please.

I must point out that the minimum standard these days for book reviews includes Mariella Frostrup's husky tones.

If you are to continue this discourse, I suggest and request you intersperse your arguments with links to soft porn in one-per-day, Toolpusher-style, to maintain a proper Radio 4 standard of subliminal lustiness.

Thank you for your attention, you may now continue.

[TheFaQQer]

I have just had a strange thought, possibly the ale.

The ale probably helps - Immanuel Kant was a real pissant, apparently. Linky.

[EternalOptimist]

The ale probably helps - Immanuel Kant was a real pissant, apparently. Linky.

you have made an old man very happy

[TimberWolf]

I've been reading "The Voyage Of The Beagle" by a Mr Charles Darwin down at the local library, and it's quite interesting. A good read. You get an insight into how people thought in the day, their ethics and how advanced the thinking on many matters other than evolution. He seems accurate in many of his hypotheses too. For example describing the Earth's crust as floating and being moved from underneath and how coral atolls might be formed by the land sinking and coral growing upwards. He also said New Zealanders are cannibals.

[EternalOptimist]

I've been reading "The Voyage Of The Beagle" by a Mr Charles Darwin down at the local library, and it's quite interesting. A good read. You get an insight into how people thought in the day, their ethics and how advanced the thinking on many matters other than evolution. He seems accurate in many of his hypotheses too. For example describing the Earth's crust as floating and being moved from underneath and how coral atolls might be formed by the land sinking and coral growing upwards. He also said New Zealanders are cannibals.

It's incredible to imagine that a lot of the things we now consider to be 'common sense' and obvious , will one day be the objects of ridicule

a blooming good reason never to be 'too' sure about anything

[OwlHoot]

If you want a decent philosophy book, i.e. science with a bit of philosophy rather than the other way round, try "The Life of the Cosmos" by Lee Smolin.

[cojak]

I gave Mr C Sophie's World - that was a good starter book on the history of philosophy.

[Scary]

'the science of science' - that doesnt make sense
'the maths of maths' - that doesnt make sense
'the logic of logic' - that doesnt make sense

but
'the philosophy of philosophy' - yep, i would buy that book

Sounds interesting, I'd probably buy that one.