Why did Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem become so famous outside of mathematics? The real question that should be asked is: why is it so famous within mathematics?
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Tag: philosophy of science
#94: Moore’s Paradox, Belief, and Mental State
Contemplation of the conceptual differences between belief and knowledge through the aphorism: “people believe what they want to believe”; through contemplation of Moore’s Paradox; and through contemplation of the concept of a mental state of belief. Contemplation of how it is possible to voluntarily, knowingly, and intentionally have false beliefs and of how it is epistemically possible to use such false beliefs to achieve knowledge.
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#89: Philosophy of Mind: Monism
Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind for a non-academic audience. This episode introduces monism, physicalism, and functionalism in the philosophy of mind.
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#88: Philosophy of Mind: Introduction and Dualism
Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind for a non-academic audience. This episode introduces philosophy of mind as a part of metaphysics and to dualism in the philosophy of mind.
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#87: Data Science and Ethics and Morality
Basics of how the wordgame of data science may affect normative wordgames of ethics and morality. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective.
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#86: Data Science and Normative Language
Basics of how the wordgame of data science may affect normative wordgames of ethics and morality. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective.
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#85: Data Science
Basics of how data science is defining a new scientific wordgame and scientific methodology. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective.
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#72: Rule Following Paradox
Contemplates philosophy of language further and tries to clarify the relationship between existentialist and pragmatic theories of language by contemplating Wittgenstein’s Rule Following Paradox.
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#70: Time and Space
What is time and space? Are they real or simply attributes or wordgames in our perceptions and language about reality? Basics of the metaphysics and ontology branch of philosophy. Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Ontology is the study of being. This episode contemplates the metaphysical and ontological questions of what is time and space in preparation for the question of what is free will?
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#65: Introduction to Metaphysics
Basics of the metaphysics branch of philosophy. Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Philosophers and theologians will be discussing basic history, problems, and issues in philosophy and metaphysics for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective varying from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#64: Introduction to Epistemology
Basics of the epistemology branch of philosophy. Epistemology is the study of knowledge and justified true belief. Philosophers and theologians will be discussing basic history, problems, and issues in philosophy and epistemology for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective varying from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#63: Science and its Future as Religion
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is the status of science as a modern demigod and secular religion and its future as such. Contemplation of what secular religion may replace science once its present adherents realize the implications of its falsification attribute. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#62: Order from Disorder / Probability and Statistics
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on probability and statistics used as a means to hide the falsification attribute of science and to hide the inability of science to give certain truth.
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#61: Order from Disorder / Evolution and Intelligent Design
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on the basics for comparison of rational tools and theories to differentiate between science and non-science such as art and trades and pseudo-sciences such as the social sciences. Example comparisons consist of evolution and intelligent design.
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#60: Social Sciences
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on the basics for comparison of rational tools and theories to differentiate between science and non-science such as art and trades and pseudo-sciences such as the social sciences.
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#59: Scientific Language
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on the ability of science to assume or ignore contradiction as part of its technique for achieving pragmatic truth.
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#58: Falsification
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on the required attribute of falsification for something to be a science.
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#57: The Problem of Cause and Effect
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is on the concept and problem of cause and effect.
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#56: Inductive Reasoning and the Ravens Paradox
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. This episode deals with the problem of inductive reasoning.
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#55: What is Science?
Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis is on how dominant philosophies have and do affect the working classes throughout history because this is the group of people who suffer the worst and adverse affects of whatever are the dominant philosophical ideals of any given age and who usually are the least knowledgeable about the nature of the ideals and why they are dominant.
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#52: Assumption of the Contradiction: Scientific Language, Consciousness, Subconscious, and Analytic Philosophy
Contemplation on the unique attributes of scientific language: falsification and the ability to assume contradiction into language as a benefit. This contemplation uses the example of “subconscious thought”, entropy, and dark matter/energy and others. Does the existentialist and pragmatic nature of language apply to the language of science? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#51: The Language of Science
Does the existentialist and pragmatic nature of language apply to the language of science? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#50: The Language of Mathematics, Logic, and Science
Does the existentialist and pragmatic nature of language apply to the language of mathematics, logic, and science? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#43: The Duck-Rabbit
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#42: Wittgenstein’s Beetle
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? If the meaning of words is their use, how is a philosophy of language even possible? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#41: Intro to Philosophy of Language Part II
What is language? What is the meaning of words? Is a private language possible? Do words such as mind, consciousness, and even pure logic and mathematics have any existential meaning? Basic history and discussion from the working class perspective of issues in philosophy of language, science, existentialism, and pragmatism.
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#36: Why does God hate the Poor: Does the Trinity concept help?
Why does God hate the poor? Can God love or hate? This episode contemplates whether the Trinity concept of Christianity helps in answering these questions and analyzes to what extend religious concepts such as the Trinity should be considered when contemplating the ontological nature of God. Theology is studied as a branch of philosophy and not as religious theology.
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