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Tim S. Roberts refers to the question of why a particular organism out of all the organisms that happen to exist happens to be you as the "Even Harder Problem of Consciousness". [37] The philosophical issues with personal identity have been extensively discussed by Thomas Nagel in his book The View from Nowhere.
Arthur Eddington, Philosophy of Physical Science, 1939; Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science, 1958; Adolf Grünbaum, Philosophical Problems of Space and Time, 1963/1973; John Stewart Bell, "On the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen Paradox", 1964; Rudolf Carnap, Philosophical Foundations of Physics, 1966
Monty Hall problem, also known as the Monty Hall paradox: [2] An unintuitive consequence of conditional probability. Necktie paradox: A wager between two people seems to favour them both. Very similar in essence to the Two-envelope paradox. Proebsting's paradox: The Kelly criterion is an often optimal strategy for maximizing profit in the long ...
Pascal's Wager: A Study of Practical Reasoning in Philosophical Theology. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 9780268015565. (The first book-length treatment of the Wager in English.) Whyte, Jamie (2004). Crimes against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders. McGraw-Hill.
Unanswerable questions may not have solutions, but they sure give our minds one heck of a workout. That's what makes them equally fun and frustrating to ponder. Trying to come up with joke answers ...
American philosophical theologian. David Hartley (1705–1757). Julien La Mettrie (1709–1751). Materialist, genetic determinist. Thomas Reid (1710–1796). Member of Scottish Enlightenment, founder of Scottish Common Sense philosophy. David Hume (1711–1776). Empiricist, skeptic. Jean–Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778). Social contract ...
Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae (Certain philosophical questions) is the name given to a set of notes that Isaac Newton kept for himself during his earlier years in Cambridge. They concern questions in the natural philosophy of the day that interested him. Apart from the light it throws on the formation of his own agenda for research, the ...
The list starts in order with the first ten books: the I Ching (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible), the Iliad and Odyssey, the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), the Tao Te Ching, the Avesta, the Analects, the History of ...