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		<title>An Existentialist&#8217;s Homework Assignment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Ursabia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does Nietzsche mean by the phrase “God is dead” as announced by his character of the “Madman” (PN pp.95-6)? (15 points) Nietzsche’s madman as described as someone walking through the “market place” with a lantern looking for God is an allusion to Diogenes of Sinope (412-332BC). Diogenes was the founder of the School of...<a href="http://www.carolynursabia.com/2012/01/an-existentialists-homework-assignment/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What demarcates science from non-science?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Ursabia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is a paper I wrote for some class or other several many years ago.  I didn&#8217;t like it back then, but thought I&#8217;d post it anyway.) What is the essence of science, and what makes it successful? A survey of 20th century history of the philosophy of science will provide a full array of...<a href="http://www.carolynursabia.com/2012/01/what-demarcates-science-from-non-science/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Existentialism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Ursabia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[nihilism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sartre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Overman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Intro In his Will to Power, and Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche diagnosed the modern problem of nihilism. He proposed the Overman as a response to this problem as a general framework of what a new meaning for life would be. But the Overman is not a full response – It is more of an open...<a href="http://www.carolynursabia.com/2011/11/existentialism/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Description of the P=NP Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Ursabia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[P=NP]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[PHL346]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This problem has to do with whether a certain class of hard-to-solve problems, designated NP-Complete, can be reduced to fast-to-solve problems, designated P.   Both NP-Complete and P problems belong to NP, a set of problems for which any given solution can be verified quickly. The time it takes to find a solution for a problem varies for reasons beside the fact that...<a href="http://www.carolynursabia.com/2010/10/description-of-the-pnp-problem/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem Of Induction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Ursabia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bertrand Russell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Popper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knight of Infinite Resignation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P. F. Strawson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Soren Kierkegaard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The problem of induction was introduced by David Hume (1711-1776) and started with the question of whether or not induction is justified. This is a genuine concern since predictions about the unobserved/future that are derived from experience are made through inductive inference, and are not deductively closed arguments (i.e. not a priori knowledge). To illustrate...<a href="http://www.carolynursabia.com/2010/06/the-problem-of-induction/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Indispensability Argument</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Ursabia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colyvan described the Indispensability argument as “the best argument for Platonism.”  Its basic structure, as per Colyvan: We ought to have ontological commitment to all the entities that are indispensable to our best scientific theories.  (Confirmational Holism) We ought to have ontological commitment to only the entities that are indispensable to our best scientific theories. ...<a href="http://www.carolynursabia.com/2010/05/the-indispensability-argument-for-platonism-in-mathematics/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ontology of the Atom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Ursabia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Albert Einstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Realism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bas Van Fraassen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constructive Empiricism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen Interpretation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electromagnetic Field Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entity Realism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ernst Mach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Instrumentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Clerk Maxwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Worral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ludwig Boltzmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Models of the Atom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neils Bohr]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quantum Mechanics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Solvay Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Structural Realism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Realism vs. Anti-Realism and Models of The Atom Introduction Did physicists believe in the reality of their atomic models? To answer this question, one has to look first at what it means to say that one ‘believes in the reality’ of something, and then also understand what is meant by a scientific ‘model’.  (From this...<a href="http://www.carolynursabia.com/2009/12/ontology-of-the-atom/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Crucial Experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Ursabia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ampere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andre-Marie Ampere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Augustin Jean Fresnel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corpuscular Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coulomb]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dominique Francois Jean Arago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electrodynamics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electromagnetic Field Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goethe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Christian Oersted]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huygens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isaac Newton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Faraday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature of Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naturphilosophie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oersted]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Young]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Influence of Newton and Goethe on Nineteenth Century Physics In The Experiment As Mediator between Object and Subject, Goethe argued that it is not possible to use a single experiment to arrive at a conclusive result regarding the truth of a theory.  Goethe proposed that the issue was in the determination of the link...<a href="http://www.carolynursabia.com/2009/12/crucial-experiment/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nice Guys Finish First</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Ursabia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class Assignments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Altruistic Behaviour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dawkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Game Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prisoner's Dilemma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Dawkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Axelrod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Selfish Gene]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Summary of Nice Guys Finish First, The Selfish Gene In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins illustrates his answer to the question of what level it is at which “the fittest” survive in Darwin’s process of evolution.  Of Lorenz’s On Aggression, Adrey’s The Social Contract, and Eibl-Eibesfeldt’s Love and Hate, he writes that “they got it...<a href="http://www.carolynursabia.com/2009/12/nice-guys-finish-first-the-selfish-gene/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630, Marie Boas Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Ursabia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class Assignments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scientific Revolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marie Boas Hall’s The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630 is one volume of the series entitled The Rise of Modern Science.  This book serves as an excellent book of reference for this period, tying the scientific activities during this time together with a theme – “First came uncritical acceptance of new or at least unhackneyed texts; then...<a href="http://www.carolynursabia.com/2009/12/the-scientific-renaissance/">&#187;</a>]]></description>
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