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Science and philosophy – 1
A couple of days back, in a comment on this video, I wrote Unfortunately because of the philosophy of logical positivism, most scientists today are afraid or unwilling to accept the necessity of...
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Science and philosophy – 2
I just finished reading “dreams of a final theory” by Steven Weinberg. The book is somewhat less technical than I had expected. Despite having a chapter titled “Against Philosophy”, Weinberg deals with...
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The scope of free will
I was debating the issue of anarchy and was directed to this article (pdf) by Prof. Moshe Kroy which highlights some fundamental differences between Rand’s philosophy and Rothbard’s including the scope...
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Computability and Free Will
In this post I will draw on a proof from Roger Penrose’s book Shadows of the mind that I think is important to the free will issue. The proof goes like this. Consider an algorithm that takes a single...
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