As if Socrates’ trial and execution were not evidence enough, from the streets of New York City comes new proof that philosophy and politics don’t mix. Melissa Rosser, Associate Professor of Philosophy at PUNY, is a specialist in ancient philosophy. Among other areas of interest, she has written several books about the paradoxes of Zeno, […]
Since Nelson Goodman’s publication of Fact, Fiction, & Forecast,1 philosophers have discussed the color known as grue, which seems identical to green before time T, but which seems identical to blue after time T. The problem with identifying grue things, of course, is that no one knew when time T would occur. Well, thanks to […]
If you’ve been around a little while, you’ve probably heard quite a few references to Time T. In case you haven’t heard about time T yet, here are some of the typical things that scientists say will happen at time T: Economics: At time T, the original investment of $10,000 will have tripled. Physics: At […]
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were astonished to find that the results of two experiments conducted last month seemed to indicate that, for very short durations of the order of nanoseconds, time was moving backwards. After two weeks of analysis, when it seemed clear that the experimental results could only be interpreted to […]
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