Tag: propositions

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 27, 2026

Categories
Fine-tuning
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, background knowledge, Bayesian formalism, Bayesian reasoning, belief, Big Bang, calculus, conditionalization, cosmology, deductive logic, Dutch book arguments, fine-tuning, Fisherian hypothesis testing, inference to the best explanation, John Maynard Keynes, logic, Mercury, naturalism, Nevin Climenhaga, null distributions, philosophy, precession, probability, propositions, psychological states, rejection regions, Sean Carroll, Socrates, subjective interpretation, syllogism, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series)}

The Objective Probability of the Fine-Tuning Evidence

_{Bruce Gordon
March 27, 2026

Fine-tuning, Philosophy, Physics

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Science and philosophy aim to explain aspects of the world and of our experience, and both offer judgments about what is correct or incorrect. Read More ›

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Author
Rt. Revd. Samuel Wilberforce

Date
April 7, 2025

Categories
Botany
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algae, animals, cats, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, descendants, Dogs, elephants, England, flies, grasses, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joseph Hooker, Lucretius, mites, mosses, mushrooms, natural history, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, propositions, Quarterly Review, reasoning, Thomas Henry Huxley, variations, whales, worms}

“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Excerpts from Samuel Wilberforce on Darwin

_{Rt. Revd. Samuel Wilberforce
April 7, 2025

Botany, Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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"We have objected to the views with which we have been dealing solely on scientific grounds." Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 15, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, genetic mutations, intelligent design, Nature Genetics, propositions}

Mapping the Pleiotropic Network of Human Cells

_{Paul Nelson
March 15, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Genes and proteins are remarkably similar to natural-language words in a polyfunctional respect. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 19, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Big Think, brain states, criminal justice, free will, Hannah Arendt, Marcelo Gleiser, materialism, neuroscience, propositions, quantum physics, Sam Harris, totalitarianism, truth}

Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No

_{Michael Egnor
January 19, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

Marcelo Gleiser notes that the mind is not a solar system with strict deterministic laws. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 3, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Benjamin Libet, determinism, free will, illusion, Jerry Coyne, materialism, matter, mind, neuroscience, propositions, quantum mechanics, researchers, The Guardian}

Trying to Disprove Free Will Shows that Materialism Doesn’t Work

_{Michael Egnor
May 3, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

3}

The fact that nature is not predetermined in detail has been shown quite convincingly by the experimental confirmation of Bell’s theorem in quantum mechanics. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 31, 2018

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __cedited, brain, Brandeis University, geometry, incompleteness theorem, intentionality, Kurt Gödel, law of non-contradiction, logic, mind, naturalism, propositions, Pythagorean Theorem, qualia}

Naturalism and Self-Refutation

_{Michael Egnor
January 31, 2018

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

How much does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem weigh? What is the physics of non-contradiction? How many millimeters long is Tom Clark’s argument for naturalism? Read More ›

Brain with blood isolated on black background with clipping path

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 20, 2014

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __nedited, abstract objects, analogy, brains, consciousness, dualism, emotions, materialism, mathematics, Mereology, propositions, Reductionism}

"Are We Really Conscious?": A Reply to Dr. Graziano’s Brain

_{Michael Egnor
October 20, 2014

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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It is sloppy to use dubious metaphors to describe brains or people. It is egregious to actually believe those metaphors. Read More ›