Occupation: Philosopher Birth: February 18, 1936
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas..
Acceptance means commitment, among other things..
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be..
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it..
When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are..
If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser..
Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what….