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On the distinction of Pure and Practical Reason, beyond Kant

“Finally, I believe that my attempt to separate the Kant of the Critique of Pure Reason…
Dante and Islam

I recently attended a very interesting conference by Roger Scruton, the celebrated author of (among many…
A German dictionary

“In an attempt to explain Russian Bolshevism to Lady Ottoline Morrell, Bertrand Russell once remarked that,…
Theodicy 2.0

If someone is, like me, working all the time with RNGs and strives to produce MonteCarlo…
Ratzinger and Habermas on “deus sive natura”

In 2004, two great figures of Europe’s Life of the Mind met to discuss the times…
Also sprach Darwin

Russell (History of Western Philosophy) did not understand Nietzsche when he said that he was an…
Subversive Spinoza

Sebastiano Timpanaro did investigate the relationship between Giacomo Leopardi and d’Holbach in the Italian preface to…
Giorgio Colli on Spinoza

The great Giorgio Colli wrote a superb introduction to Spinoza’s Ethica, here reproduced in Italian –…
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Cosmism

It appears to me that a single idea transpires through Isaac Asimov’s “New Guide to Science”,…
Grammars vs feedback control

There was a point in which the AI community adopted Chomsky grammars. Grammars are Cartesian universals.…