tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post5132169750891011639..comments2024-03-28T16:00:31.691-04:00Comments on the daily howler: WITTGENSTEIN IN THE WORLD: As Bertrand Russell sat at his table...<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-14308141078132475072021-09-16T07:37:45.113-04:002021-09-16T07:37:45.113-04:00I really want to thank Dr Emu for saving my marria...I really want to thank Dr Emu for saving my marriage. My wife really treated me badly and left home for almost 3 month this got me sick and confused. Then I told my friend about how my wife has changed towards me. Then she told me to contact Dr Emu that he will help me bring back my wife and change her back to a good woman. I never believed in all this but I gave it a try. Dr Emu casted a spell of return of love on her, and my wife came back home for forgiveness and today we are happy again. 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Now he has only his pear tree for solace. <br /><br />None of this has anything to do with philosophy or politics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-23882799354787018062021-08-25T08:29:05.129-04:002021-08-25T08:29:05.129-04:00And every day, psuedonymouse Cecelia thinks that S...And every day, psuedonymouse Cecelia thinks that Somerby is some sort of genius and spends her (doubtless valueless) time defending him. 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Every day Anonymices ye...Groundhog Day- The Sequel<br /><br />Every day Anonymices yet again learn that Somerby is anti-Semitic, misogynistic, and hates black. <br /><br />Every day they learn that he is not a liberal. <br />Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-74151887122237728552021-08-24T21:15:41.660-04:002021-08-24T21:15:41.660-04:00Some interesting stats on who has been vaccinated ...Some interesting stats on who has been vaccinated and who has not:<br /><br />https://digbysblog.net/2021/08/24/whos-been-vaccinated/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-63484553167563664182021-08-24T20:40:31.301-04:002021-08-24T20:40:31.301-04:00Somerby does say that the color blind are less imp...Somerby does say that the color blind are less important than drowning children. I'd like to know how he came to that judgment. It may be that he is an ableist (someone prejudiced against those with disabilities).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-8863770894440443672021-08-24T20:38:27.650-04:002021-08-24T20:38:27.650-04:00What exactly are you learning? Just out of curiosi...What exactly are you learning? Just out of curiosity.<br /><br />You think Somerby is enjoying himself, but he sounds like someone in pain to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-58159500447080845662021-08-24T20:37:30.670-04:002021-08-24T20:37:30.670-04:00Russell's discussion of color appearances of t...Russell's discussion of color appearances of the table is consistent with the psychophysics of the perception of color. Color is not an inherent property of any object but the result of cognitive processing of sensory input as light stimulates photoreceptors in the eyeball and sends signals to the brain via the optic nerves. As a result of that higher order processing in the visual cortex and adjacent areas in the temporal lobes, we identify objects, detect features such as texture and color, and form the concept of color constancy, which means that a sweater that looks black in the closet without light and red under bright sunlight but darker red in shadow is thought of as a permanent and fixed shade of red no matter what the viewing conditions. Those who have achromaticity (inability to see color) or color-blindness (inability to see certain colors) nevertheless learn the names of colors and color concepts (such as that green and red are opposites) from everyday language usage, despite being unable to see such colors themselves.<br /><br />This is reality. In real life, people produce and sell red sweaters to people seeking them. And if Somerby thinks the color red has no significance, what would the Stars and Stripes be without it? Or how would a stop light work as a signal? Color has its purposes in our real world.<br /><br />Understanding how people perceive color has both practical and theoretical significance. If Somerby is trying to argue that only applied science matters and theory doesn't, then he is wrong because application depends on theoretical advances and the better we understand how mind and body work, the more we can do to make our lives better, even for those children trying to leave Kabul. Presumably, they wouldn't want to be attempting to board the wrong plane, and color serves to identify things in our culture. Even Somerby should understand that you don't wear red when rooting for the Bears at a Stanford-Cal football game.<br /><br />Quine conceived of philosophy as related to science and his focus was on constructing sound theories. That has real world consequence because science is about discovering the properties of the real world. Logic, of course, is applied by computer and cognitive scientists, mathematicians, and perhaps an occasional lawyer. It has plenty of applications. But the job of a professor is to develop new knowledge and teach students. That is the application of their expertise. As I noted a few days ago, one expanding application of a philosophy degree (typically an M.A.) is bioethics. Hospitals hire trained bioethicists to make decisions about difficult cases involving competing needs or interests. This is most relevant today in deciding which covid patients receive scarce resources in today's ICUs, which means who lives and who dies in those parts of our country where people are waiting in emergency rooms for ICU beds which are insufficient to meet needs during this surge. <br /><br />What are the ethics of declaring that dying children in Europe are more important than understanding how the visual system works with the brain to produce color constancy?<br /><br />Somerby sets a poor example for students when he mocks the things he does not understand. This is anti-intellectualism at its worst. And that is a hallmark of Trump's party, led by a man with no curiosity, an inability to read, and an unwillingness to learn anything about our world.<br /><br />Epistomology is the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. That is what Russell was discussing -- how we know for sure that what we believe is real. It is more important today, in a time of disinformation, than it has ever been. Why would Somerby discourage college students from pursuing this important work? I cannot imagine that he was ever much of a teacher with this attitude toward knowledge -- that only what can be directly applied in every day life matters. What a waste of space he must have been in his classrooms.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62160564488214533862021-08-24T18:39:06.950-04:002021-08-24T18:39:06.950-04:00I’m enjoying it and learning from it. Nice to see ...I’m enjoying it and learning from it. Nice to see Somerby enjoying himself. Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162272807640653299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-14612112069865702212021-08-24T16:31:38.687-04:002021-08-24T16:31:38.687-04:00‘Many events will be taking place as we instruct t...‘Many events will be taking place as we instruct teen-aged college students to reason’<br /><br />Somerby’s radical approach to teaching students to reason, apparently learned from the master Wittgenstein:<br /><br />‘Those students aren’t my children. I will always defer to the parents, and I believe we should continue to teach the lies that we all used to agree with.’mhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937133532381705347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-36198947112893536412021-08-24T16:23:12.452-04:002021-08-24T16:23:12.452-04:00‘Russell was a brilliant scholar. But all through ...‘Russell was a brilliant scholar. But all through the last century, various toffs were arrayed at various tables and desks, comfortably seated in chairs at the club, making claims as silly as those which appear at the start of Russell's book.’<br /><br />Anyone who refers to Russell as an effete snob or ‘toff’ sitting around engaged in decadent academic puffery knows absolutely nothing about Russell. mhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937133532381705347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-81591443793012787132021-08-24T16:14:00.403-04:002021-08-24T16:14:00.403-04:00‘children are drowning in the sea, or are being tr...‘children are drowning in the sea, or are being trampled to death on their way to an airport in Kabul. Many events will be taking place as we instruct teen-aged college students to reason, or to consider reasoning. in the somewhat peculiar way shown.’<br /><br />It’s terrible that students who choose to study philosophy are being taught philosophy by philosophy professors. mhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937133532381705347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-9884940356459991632021-08-24T11:09:59.483-04:002021-08-24T11:09:59.483-04:00This was amusing... I for one am enjoying this ser...This was amusing... I for one am enjoying this series.<br /><br />Now let's get on with the hollow, repetitive innuendo and straw men from the illustrious daily commentators.Rationalistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-60868178736303623332021-08-24T10:45:07.455-04:002021-08-24T10:45:07.455-04:00"Have the logicians fled our world?"
Ma..."Have the logicians fled our world?"<br /><br />May we rephrase the question, dear Bob: have you liberals fled the world of logic? of logic and common sense? <br /><br />We're sorry to say, the answer is resounding yes. You have, dear Bob. Long time ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com