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[Revised entry by Daniel Stoljar on September 16, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Physicalism is, in slogan form, the thesis that everything is physical. The thesis is usually intended as a metaphysical thesis, parallel to the thesis attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Thales, that everything is water, or the idealism of the 18th […]
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[Revised entry by Sophie Horowitz on September 16, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Higher-order evidence is evidence which bears on a believer’s rational capacities, epistemic performance, or evidential situation. Many epistemologists hold that this kind of evidence can rationally affect our “first-order” beliefs as well: that is, those beliefs about the world that...
suliqyre:An experience occurred. It happened. I also acknowledge that it happened to me, but I refuse to think about it in that way. Doing so would make it too intimate, and I don’t want that because the experience was not a good one.In fact, it was positively horrible. It showed me something about the world that I didn’t want to know. But even worse than that, it showed me s...
Stephen Hawking, brilliant and extraordinary, was spoken of with reverence and affection. Those who knew him have a dimmer view
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To teach students how to think, shut down the WiFi, scramble the cell signal, and send them to weeklong retreats in the deep, dark woods
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