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Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:10:22 -0500

I really hope he actually said this.

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:20:00 -0500

I really hope he actually said this.

I know the man that wrote this.

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:04:35 -0400

I know the man that wrote this.

deathmathematica: Alan Turing: Turing’s suicide was perhaps the...

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:58:33 -0400

deathmathematica:

Alan Turing: Turing’s suicide was perhaps the most tragic end to one of history’s most brilliant and creative mathematicians.

From Stephen Kettle:

“Alan Turing was one of the most important and original Englishmen of the twentieth century who did more than any other to make possible the breaking of the German Enigma codes at the secret Station X at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. It was said by Winston Churchill that Turing’s work was the greatest single contribution to victory in the Second World War. It is agreed by historians that the work of the codebreakers shortened the war by at least two years, saving countless lives.
Turing is also regarded as the intellectual parent of computer science.

Alan Mathison Turing was born on 23rd June 1912 at the Colonnade hotel, Paddington, London.
At school, despite his brilliance, Turing was poorly served by those appointed to teach him and his tendency to follow his own train of thought infuriated his teachers. Turing was a free thinker, openly atheist and unapologetically homosexual who had unconventional habits and an unkempt appearance.
Turing took refuge in pure mathematics and the work of Einstein and in 1930 he won a scholarship to Kings College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of Kings in 1935 for his works on probability theory. He later moved to Princeton University where his studies led him to toy with the idea of building a machine that could think.
Turing moved to work full time at Bletchley Park when war was declared in 1939 working on Naval Enigma in hut 8 which proved a turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic. In 1945 he was awarded the OBE in recognition of his work with the Government Codes and cipher School at Bletchley. (later became GCHQ)

Turing was prosecuted for his homosexuality and was chemically castrated by means of injections of the female hormone estrogen to reduce his libido. His trial was reported in the most lurid terms in the press and destroyed his career. On the 7th June 1954 aged just forty-one, he was found dead after eating an apple laced with potassium cyanide.
The coroners report was suicide.
For more information on Alan Turing please visit www.turing.org.uk “

And a contributor to philosophy.

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Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:47:20 -0400

Some of the spelling is killing me, but this is pretty cool.

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:48:51 -0400

Some of the spelling is killing me, but this is pretty cool.

I passed my Philosophy capstone with an A. Get ready for excerpts after graduation.

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:48:57 -0400

doubtlr: An appeal to probability is a justification based on probability (sometimes regarded as...

Sat, 12 May 2012 07:50:33 -0400

doubtlr:

An appeal to probability is a justification based on probability (sometimes regarded as a logical fallacy) when an unwarranted assumption that something will happen, because it can happen, or when the odds of an occurrence are unrealistically played down in lieu of appropriate precaution.

Philosophy Capstone

Sat, 12 May 2012 04:47:00 -0400

Guys. I just finished the final draft of my philosophy capstone. Fingers crossed. I just have to wait for my oral defense on Monday. Tired and nervous.

doubt+ctrl: “Language, in its attentive and forgetful being, with its power of...

Sun, 06 May 2012 23:08:20 -0400

doubt+ctrl: “Language, in its attentive and forgetful being, with its power of...:

doubtlr:

“Language, in its attentive and forgetful being, with its power of dissimulation that effaces every determinate meaning and even the existence of the speaker, in the gray neutrality that constitutes the essential hiding place of all being and thereby frees the space of the image - is neither truth…

Noam Chomsky, "The machine, the ghost, and the limits of understanding: Newton's contributions to the study of mind"

Sun, 06 May 2012 08:05:15 -0400

Noam Chomsky, "The machine, the ghost, and the limits of understanding: Newton's contributions to the study of mind":

word-association:

Talk given at the University of Oslo, September 2011.

Added 6 days ago.

Fuckin A

maxistentialist: Just added Cornel West to my philosophy...

Sat, 05 May 2012 07:44:01 -0400

maxistentialist:

Just added Cornel West to my philosophy posters. Ten hours left!

An interesting outlook.

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Fri, 04 May 2012 16:02:58 -0400

Determinism!

Fri, 04 May 2012 08:01:44 -0400

Determinism!

Go on Hiatus. Get more followers.

Thu, 03 May 2012 19:37:36 -0400

I’m confused. Either way, welcome. I’ll be back up to full swing in two weeks.

Hierarchy of arguments.

Thu, 03 May 2012 19:36:44 -0400

Hierarchy of arguments.

Hiatus

Thu, 03 May 2012 01:27:49 -0400

Hello Followers. (I feel like a cult leader saying that, but philosophy really is a cult, so whatever.) I am in the midst of trying really hard to write my thesis that I have to defend in about a week and a half, so I’m sort of on hiatus for Philosophy Problems because of that and the rest of the things I need to do in order to graduate. So, I apologize to all of you for my lack of posting. I hope I will not lose your readership because I will be back in full swing in about 2 weeks. I miss posting things here, I truly do. If I find some pictures in between my writing, I will definitely send them along here, but I can’t promise any really good articles because I don’t have time to read them. Wittgenstein and Brandom are occupying my every thought. I’ll be back soon! Wish me luck!

I’m only slightly offended.

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:47:49 -0400

I’m only slightly offended.

A paradox. After turning the machine on, its only function is...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:24:53 -0400

A paradox. After turning the machine on, its only function is to turn itself off.

Junk & Disorderly.: So I'm reading Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:37:51 -0400

Junk & Disorderly.: So I'm reading Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love:

ravenakite:

socio-huxley-campus-trash:

OMG This is the real Super Sad True Love Story right here man.

Nietzsche said he never slept with anyone but oops Syphilis. OOPS SEXISM.

Kierkegaard badgers this 18 year old into marrying him, he gets depressed and starts hate/loving her, doing that one thing…

This is so worth reading.