FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Plato
Explore the evolving conversation, or begin with a guide to its central questions.
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God did it, or aliens?
“NRG” posting over on Pharyngula asks me: Why impute an admittedly Unknowable Omni God to explain currently inexplainable phenomena, if it’s much more reasonable, based on what we actually know,…
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messages about the purpose of philosophizing…
Here is a message and my response that I’ve exchanged over on YouTube as 0ThouArtThat0. From YouTube user drchaffee: Thanks for understanding that I wasn’t trying to demean…
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The Science of Life
Daniel Dennett says biology is engineering. He argues that living organisms are machines, flattening the classical Aristotelian difference between natural and artificial. For Aristotle, natural things had their form and…
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Timaeus, or the Universe as a Living Thing
Cosmology is an art that involves speaking about the whole: to do cosmology, I must share stories with others concerning what we all belong to. This can be done in…
