…view on meaning and language). Thanks to Shawn for this one. Sellars was a pillar of the Pittsburgh school, and one of the primary developers of the study of the history and philosophy of science. (1912-1989) For more online videos of philosophers, most of whom are not dead, visit a brood a comb. Update, 1 July 08. Mikolka has compiled a list of Magee’s videos, and there are even more philosophers speaking at freevideolectures.com. Soul Physics is…
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…get some immediate cash. Suppose that McDuck does mortgages for a lot more people besides just BurgerBee. In total, let’s say that he gave away 2 million for people to build restaurants. McDuck feels pretty good about this, because he expects to eventually get 4 million in return — he just won’t see all of it for 30 years. But now imagine that McDuck needs some cash up front. (Let’s say he wants 3 million to build a skyscraper.) The Bank has 3 mil…
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…relativity, all of which is available for free online. If you know of any online resources that are not on this list, suggest them in the comments and I will add them to the list! Contents Non-mathematical introductions to general relativity Mathematical introductions to general relativity Philosophy of general relativity Other general relativity references. Non-mathematical introductions to general relativity Einstein for Everyone, by John D. No…
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…? Many university libraries and offices have public scanners. You can also buy a scanner for less than 15 per book — which is still much less than an original (even used!) textbook. Finally, if you’re too lazy to do all this yourself, you can just have the whole job done at FedEx or the UPS Store. Tell them what you want printed, and ask for a spiral binding job. The price should still be less than $20 per textbook. Happy reading! Soul Physics is…
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…r consequent inability to squish that much mass-energy into lengths of the order of a very small R_s. However, some string theorists think that our four dimensions are just one surface of a many-dimensional world that we apparently can’t access. One consequence they derive is a much larger value for R_s for a given mass in these situations (from what I understand, they think it gets stretched out into these extra dimensions). This is the reason pe…
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