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Favorite Philosopher: Spinoza

Location: reason's raggedy edge ...

Biography: "suffering" initially drew me to philosophy (away from 'religion' & 'science'); then the persistent ubiquity of "stupidity" eventually made a philosophical skeptic-pragmatic fallibilist out of me ... happy childhood. no wives or kids. far-flung good friends. voracious reader & compulsive flaneur. a cheerful pessimist ...



(current) prisms:

epistemology ... foundherentist (re: domain - data; descriptions) ala Haack
ontology ... compositional nihilist (Democritus, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Mandelbrot, Tegmark, Deutsch)
logic ... actualist (with focus on 'erotetics')
ethics ... ecological (Boulding-Sen-Nussbaum) eudaimonist (Epicurus-Epictetus-Spinoza)
aesthetics ... absurdist (tragicomic, Blues, dissonant, Wabi-sabi_Mono no aware)

(current) heurisms:

philosophy of science ... critical rationalism (re: adaptation - models; explanations) ala Feyerabend
philosophy of mind ... functionalism (substrate-independent cognition) ala Metzinger
philosophy of language ... pragmatics (Peirce, Wittgenstein, Habermas, K-O Apel)
philosophy of mathematics ... finitism (with strong affinities for eliminative structuralism)
philosophy of history ... catastrophism (Taleb, Diamond); irreligion: anti-"providence" & anti-"utopia"
political philosophy ... left-libertarianism: empirical skepticism(Taleb); negative utilitarianism(Popper)
philosophy of religion ... atheism (re: mono/poly-theisms); ignosticism (re: deism & pantheism)

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• I do not believe any god exists that's been 'alleged' to cause changes to (i.e. acts of creation) and/or in (i.e. miracles) the world for ...
• Real. It's both an indispensible predicate & the inescapable presupposition which implies objectivity without being an object. (But - go...
• Strawman ad nauseam ... I don't "ask Mariner to explain" anything. Mariner and any believers who happen to take his OP literally.
• Well, maybe that's because QM is science. :confused: Don't know which orifice you're pulling this out of, Wos, but I'm always ...
• Strawman. I neither claim nor imply anything about believers' beliefs. I'm simply inverting the OP in order to suggest to Mariner what it w...