Perception Philosophy: Part 1
Published May 20, 2005
If logical atomism would be wrong, then nuclear weapons and nuclear controls could not work, while there is enough proof they do. People and animals can not grow. Nothing as we know it would exist, there would not even be a planet we live on. There could only be emptiness. The theory of the big bang would be impossible. And even emptiness would have its problems. Because the word emptiness points that there is an observer who can observe that, and who knows what non-emptiness is. There would be nothing. Nothing would exist, not even these words, or the person that wrote them.
Previous Read books on philosophy
These are the books I have read so far, or parts of it, about philosophy:The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
I think therefore I laugh, The flip side of philosophy by John Allen Paulos
Kant and the Platypus from Umberto Eco
Discourse om method and meditations by Renee Descartes
Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae [Dutch translation]
Heidegger and his time by Rudiger Safranski
Het boek van de schoonheid en de troost By Wim Kayzer
De denkers van filosofie [philosophy magazine]
some numbers from Filosofie [philosophy magazine]
How the mind works by Steven Pinker
and numerous articles in The New ScientistsFrom the Dutch series about individual philosophers from Lemniscaat:
Russell
Plato
Aristoteles
Hume
Descartes
WittgensteinSome ideas about conceptual art might have influenced me so I will note that book also : Early interview with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, Weiner
This book also influenced me in experimenting with conceptual art, although virtually no proof of that remains, as snow melts.
What might also have influenced me is Origin of Species of Charles Darwin, and The Structure of evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould [still in the process of reading]
There might be others, but that would be articles, not books. To be correct, every book that we have at home about the subject might have to be included as well, as I could be influenced by books my father read. Although it's been a while that we discussed philosophy and this was mostly a subject when I was younger, several years ago, and perhaps a bit more recent too.
- Perception Philosophy: Part 1
- Published: May 20, 2005
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- Writer: Floris Vermeir
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All spelling mistakes should be corrected. e.g. has been replaced by for example. That should make it clearer to read. I really should try not to mix my languages when writing public text.



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