15 JAN 2015 by ideonexus

 Kantianism is a School and Not a Culture

Critical philosophy – Kantianism and neo-Kantianism – is also a school and not a solution. The Critique of Pure Reason can be said to deal with science or philosophy only within the narrow limits of an artificial, particularised experience (confined to laboratory or academic study). Similarly, the Critique of Practical Reason can be said to deal with life only within the narrow limits of personal affairs and within the kind of disunity that is not regarded as vice; it is a moral code for mi...
Folksonomies: cosmism
Folksonomies: cosmism
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It ignores the need for a scientific culture of all people doing collective science always.
24 FEB 2011 by ideonexus

 Science Doesn't Concern Itself With What Doesn't Exist

Science doesn’t concern itself with the non-existence of something. The periodic table of imaginary things would be too big for a classroom- infinitely big in fact, and rather pointless. It’s not trying to prove the non-existence of anything supernatural. All it knows is there is no scientific proof of anything supernatural so far. When someone presents a jar of God it will test it. If it finds some evidence of “godness” it will follow the evidence till it knows everything it can. The fact t...
Folksonomies: science atheism
Folksonomies: science atheism
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Ricky Gervais describing why science only concerns itself with discovering truth, not what should be done with that truth.