Some things I’m reading and reviewing, but squeezed for time, so just bookmarking here:
Tom Clark, making a defence of Determinism.
My position (after Dennett) is that the problem is not that physical science is determinist, but that people interpret that fact too narrowly and reductively, to the exclusion of other “emergent” causal chains.
“Super-Determinism Sucks” as we’ve said before [and I see – reminds me -this is the source of my Kevin Mitchell / Tom Clark “debate” I need to write-up also.]
Adam Weisberg on “Ontic Vagueness”
Very interesting on where Ontic vagueness is truly Ontic or really always Epistemic.
Fascinating arguments, on identity (self-identity) and a free universe. but going right back to the basic something rather than nothing or one thing not the other thinking. Again much used here.
Katherine Cross “Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (almost) Never Mix”
H/T Ulrike Hahn on Mastodon for the link. Absolutely fits my agenda:
“social media are not fit for producing [healthy] political change [in fact it’s degenerate]”
[Dave Snowden’s recent series of posts]
Thanks for the pointer to Ontic Vagueness. I’ve saved the PDF for later reading. Whitehead often talked about the significance of vagueness, and the question of what “A=A” really means has come up in a paper I’m now reviewing (my blog post about it is almost ready) about Whitehead’s concept of “simple location.” The paper has something interesting to say about dynamical systems theory, so stay tuned!
Yes, that “self-identical” A=A had me baffled for a while, but I see now how it fits with those existing thoughts.
I’m about 2/3 through making notes / a review of that paper to respond to the author (on Mastodon)
Shall be fascinated to see what you’re writing too 🙂