Comments for Samuel Sotillo's The Invisible Friend http://samuelsotillo.com/home My thoughts on technology, literature, philosophy and that little trick we call life. Thu, 10 May 2012 18:23:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Comment on Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? by bob green http://samuelsotillo.com/home/2012/05/08/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/#comment-408 bob green Thu, 10 May 2012 18:23:42 +0000 http://samuelsotillo.com/home/?p=1842#comment-408 You may find the book "The Origin of the Universe - Case Closed" to be interesting. It has math in the Appendix to back up the claims. It is hard to argue with the math! I think it is better than Krauss' book. You may find the book “The Origin of the Universe – Case Closed” to be interesting. It has math in the Appendix to back up the claims. It is hard to argue with the math! I think it is better than Krauss’ book.

]]> Comment on Boghossian vs. Fish on Moral Relativism by Nick http://samuelsotillo.com/home/2011/08/02/boghossian-vs-fish-on-moral-relativism/#comment-136 Nick Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:48:06 +0000 http://samuelsotillo.com/home/?p=1105#comment-136 You should pay more heed to Boghossian's arguments. The stuff about nihilism might not be him at his best under one interpretation, but it is not certain that Boghossian is talking about Raskolnikov-type nihilism rather than simply not believing that there are moral truths type nihilism. Not "everything is allowed" but "nothing is allowed or disallowed". Accusing your opponent's theory of entailing the first is a boring rhetorical trope, accusing his theory of entailing the second is a bit more interesting. If you are interested this is Boghossian's reply to Fish if you are interested: http://nyu.academia.edu/PaulBoghossian/Papers/845903/Does_Philosophy_Matter_--_It_Would_Appear_So._A_Reply_to_Fish You should pay more heed to Boghossian’s arguments. The stuff about nihilism might not be him at his best under one interpretation, but it is not certain that Boghossian is talking about Raskolnikov-type nihilism rather than simply not believing that there are moral truths type nihilism. Not “everything is allowed” but “nothing is allowed or disallowed”. Accusing your opponent’s theory of entailing the first is a boring rhetorical trope, accusing his theory of entailing the second is a bit more interesting.

If you are interested this is Boghossian’s reply to Fish if you are interested:

http://nyu.academia.edu/PaulBoghossian/Papers/845903/Does_Philosophy_Matter_–_It_Would_Appear_So._A_Reply_to_Fish

]]> Comment on A decade after the Millennium by admin http://samuelsotillo.com/home/2010/12/29/a-decade-after-the-millennium/#comment-44 admin Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:00:04 +0000 http://samuelsotillo.com/home/?p=407#comment-44 True! And Borges loved the idea of recursive rather than circular time... Thanks for the feedback! True! And Borges loved the idea of recursive rather than circular time… Thanks for the feedback!

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