PHILOSOPHY & POLITY

Michael Dummett, perhaps one of the most influential Anglo-American philosophers of the last half of the 20th century, died on December 27th, 2011. I would have posted earlier had I been aware, but Dummett’s death only recently caught my attention. Personally, Dummett’s work on intuitionistic logic and verificationism have greatly influenced my o […]

Let’s call verificationism the thesis that the meaning of any sentence expressing a synthetic proposition is just its method of empirical verification. It follows that a statement is meaningless if it has no method of empirical verification, and if neither it nor its negation is an analytic truth. (Obviously, this characterization of verificationism co […]

Deepak Chopra via Wikipedia via Flickr via Mitchell Aidelbaum "One of the few religions obviously designed to provide a comforting worldview is New Age mysticism. It says that people, all people, have enormous 'power,' that all sorts of intellectual and physical feats are within their reach. It claims that we are all connected to mysterious bu […]