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- Another experiment with Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Spent some time hacking over the weekend. And here’s the result: a minimalist interactive version of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a text I’ve worked with already in the past. This time I was intrigued by the simple yet super cool typed.js javascript library, which simulates animated typing. After testing it out a bit […]
- Towards an ontology for philosophy
I enjoyed watching a recent presentation by Barry Smith about ontology engineering and in particular its application in the field of philosophy itself. The presentation was hosted by the InPho team at Indian University, whose ongoing work based on creating an ontological backbone for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has drawn the attention of many. Barry […]
- Wittgenstein Tractatus and the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit
What do the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit and the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein have in common? Definitely not much, at first sight. But the moment you realise that Wittgenstein was so fascinated with logic that he wanted to organise his masterwork in the form of a tree structure, well, you may change your mind. The javaScript […]
- Mathematics and our body
“Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being” [amazon link] is a recent book by cognitive scientists George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez, in which they argue that the origin of our mathematical ideas (even the most abstract and immaterial) is to be found in the materiality of our everyday experience. That […]
- Creativity and personal mastery
By Srikumar S. Rao, who can be found also on TED talks. His class syllabus, Creativity and Personal Mastery is also an interesting read. Here’s an excerpt (which is actually a quotation from Anthony De Mello): “Recall the kind of feeling you have when someone praises you, when you are approved, accepted, applauded. And contrast […]
- Victim of the Brain
If you’ve heard about the ‘brain in a vat‘ thought experiment but never had the time to read more about it, this movie is a quite pleasant dramatisation of the argument! Victim of the Brain, 1:30:14 – 1988 [wikipedia article] Victim of the Brain is a 1988 film by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos, loosely based […]
- The Four Pillars of the Ethical Company
Some deeply inspiring and wise words I found in the mystical Guitar Craft’s website, which is not a religious sect but one of the creations of unconventional 60’s guitar hero Robert Fripp (best know for his work with King Crimson). The Guitar Craft series of events is going to end on its 25th anniversary, this […]
- Visualizing Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Shameless self-plug: some time ago I made an alternative visualization of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. No special reason, just because I wanted to do some experimentation with a text I was already working on. Well today I sort of run into it by change, and I really liked it! Isn’t that a good feeling when you […]
- Logic and Ontology
I found an interesting article on the SEP this morning, it seemed to me well written and clearly argumented. ‘Logic and ontology‘, by Thomas Hofweber. Defining logic and ontology is not an easy thing – maybe because it is just a truism to say that there is one unifying view of what they they are. […]
- Academic Earth – hours of free lectures online
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. If you can’t go to university and follow lectures there the traditional way, there’s plenty of stuff on this website for you to enlarge your horizons! As more and more high quality educational content becomes available […]