Philosophy & Ethics
- The Chicken, the Egg and The Hermeneutic Circle.
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The Chicken, the Egg and The Hermeneutic Circle. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? It is often difficult when analysing a problem to know where to start. Cause and effect sometimes seem to chase each other around in a circle. In the study of langua ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Mar 30 2009 - 10:39pm
- Language as a Proof of Evolutionary Processes.
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Please note: despite the date, this is NOT a joke, gag or spoof. Supporters of intelligent design and creation theories keep attempting to subvert our education systems. They will not be content until every child in every school in every country is taught ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 2 2009 - 1:47pm
- Windbag The Sailor Spins a Yarn
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Spinning a Yarn Ideas in etymology are like ideas in general. Just as there is the carefully researched and formulated scientific theory as against 'just an idea', so with etymology. It is to be expected that as language becomes more widely res ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 7 2009 - 1:58pm
- The True History of a Windbag
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The True History of a Windbag Ideas in etymology are like ideas in general. Just as there is the carefully researched and formulated scientific theory as against 'just an idea', so with etymology. It is to be expected that as language becomes m ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 7 2009 - 6:13pm
- Random Noise 7: Discover a Syzygy
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The Scientific Method: Discover a Syzygy This is one of my musings on etymology. The term 'musing' is derived from the notion that our ideas are inspired by the Muses. That in turn gives the notion of a museum as a place in which a person might ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 8 2009 - 6:43pm
- Philosophy Isn't Dead, No Matter What You May Have Read In The NY Times
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Today I was forwarded by several people a really bad and confused op-ed piece by New York Times columnist David Brooks. It is entitled “The End of Philosophy,” which naturally raised my baloney detector level to yellow alert. ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Apr 9 2009 - 5:53pm
- Incompetent science vs unethical science- defining the parameters
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There is bad science and then there is bad science, that is to say there is science which does not meet with the standards of care and objectivity through lack of skill, and competence and then there is science which is rotten to the core, because either i ...
Blog Post - Laurence Arnold - Apr 10 2009 - 12:38pm
- Why Does Religion Still Exist?
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There was a time when it was virtually impossible not to believe in God. That made sense; life had (and certainly still has) many mysteries and a divine hand made sense of an irrational world, at least in the sense that you could believe in one supernatu ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 4 2012 - 6:39pm
- A Dream Worth Sharing
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. On the day that Martin Luther King said those words, I was moved. Whenever I ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 17 2009 - 5:28pm
- What’s Next For Pro-Test?
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T his week, researchers and scientists at UCLA are doing something unusual: They are organizing a demonstration against the violent tactics of certain animal rights groups. This week, people in labs across the country are saying: It's about time.-- I ...
Article - Greg Critser - Apr 22 2009 - 11:57am
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