Comments on: Perspectivalism

By: Ijon Tichy

Ijon Tichy — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:12:04 +0000

So, Sean, what is this “neutral vantage point from which we [can] discuss absolute truths”? I think it might be interesting if you explored this question in some future posts.

By: greensmile

greensmile — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 01:55:04 +0000

I heard of your effort via Crooked Timber. I wish you long life, long lively discussions, decent ad revenue and a few bright but otherwise normal children!

Do we have to listen to what you consider interesting or may we, the great unwashed masses and energies put topics on your shiny new anvil?

By: A. G.

A. G. — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 01:17:22 +0000

Excellent posting, and where else can you read a blog entry on philrel? I am reminded of my experience TAing philrel. An undergraduate had a breakdown and subsequently was hospitalized, due to severe existential angst brought about by our discussions of the proofs of God’s existence. The professor who led the course told me he would never again teach philrel to undergraduates. That course had 30 or so in it; my daughter took the same course this past year at the same university, and it had close to 500 in it. Go figure.

By: Synchronized time | Cosmic Variance

Synchronized time | Cosmic Variance — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 18:21:20 +0000

[...] Did someone say that scientists are individual idiosyncratic human beings? Gleaming mathematical edifices like the special theory of relativity can give the impression of having dropped from the sky; it’s nice to be reminded of the messy contingent ways that real people happen to stumble upon them. [...]

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:52:20 +0000

Sean you’re engaged!! Fantastic. I knew there was more to all this than a brand new (and very beautiful) blog. One thing, just to let you know, Athena and I are squatting in the comments section of Preposterous Universe. She’s starting a physics-based iChing shop. So the old website is in good hands.

Congratulations on the new blog, the format is great, getting Clifford to join is great (hi cvj!), and welcome also to the bloggers that I don’t know, Risa, Mark, JoAnne…looking forward to it all….

By: Matt McIrvin

Matt McIrvin — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:11:29 +0000

He didn’t believe in a neutral vantage point, but he did believe there was some sort of group vantage point from which you were speaking. This seems unnecessarily reductive in itself, as if he were to ask the only black student in the room what the black perspective was. He wasn’t going all the way with his perspectivalism.

I took an introductory class on sculpture as an undergrad, and I still believe that my works kept getting graded by the teacher as “too mechanical” because she knew I was a physics major.

By: Against all my better judgement… | Cosmic Variance

Against all my better judgement… | Cosmic Variance — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:33:02 +0000

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