Philosophy | Periodic Table The Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements is a cultural icon and an extraordinary object in science space. This page explores what the periodic table is in terms of basic & simple elemental substance, quantum theory and the philosophy of science. Introduction A classic periodic table can be viewed at WebElements: WebElements employs the most common of many possible formulations, and these can be explored using the INTERNET Database of Periodic Tables and Periodic Table Formulations, on the next page of this webbook, here. The vast majority of Periodic Tables – and the excellent WebElements is a perfect example – are used to arrange physical, chemical, technological & historical data/information about the chemical elements in a systematic way. Check out the various way that physical, chemical, technological & historical data/information are mapped to the Periodic Table, here. It transpires that matters are a little more involved than they may at first appear... Morphing Multi-PTs © Mark R.
Anti-globalization movement The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalisation movement,[1] is critical of the globalization of corporate capitalism. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement,[2] alter-globalization movement, anti-globalist movement, anti-corporate globalization movement,[3] or movement against neoliberal globalization. Participants base their criticisms on a number of related ideas.[4] What is shared is that participants oppose what they see as large, multi-national corporations having unregulated political power, exercised through trade agreements and deregulated financial markets. Many anti-globalization activists call for forms of global integration that better provide democratic representation, advancement of human rights, fair trade and sustainable development and therefore feel the term "anti-globalization" is misleading.[6][7][8] Ideology and causes[edit] Opposition to international financial institutions and transnational corporations[edit]
Why the Western philosophical canon is xenophobic and racist Mainstream philosophy in the so-called West is narrow-minded, unimaginative, and even xenophobic. I know I am levelling a serious charge. But how else can we explain the fact that the rich philosophical traditions of China, India, Africa, and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas are completely ignored by almost all philosophy departments in both Europe and the English-speaking world? Western philosophy used to be more open-minded and cosmopolitan. One of the major Western philosophers who read with fascination Jesuit accounts of Chinese philosophy was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). The German philosopher Christian Wolff echoed Leibniz in the title of his public lecture Oratio de Sinarum Philosophia Practica, or Discourse on the Practical Philosophy of the Chinese (1721). Chinese philosophy was also taken very seriously in France. Subscribe to Aeon’s Newsletter Leibniz, Wolff and Quesnay are illustrations of what was once a common view in European philosophy. 1. 2. 3. 4.
How Much Underwear to Pack For Your Trip, Visualized To tell someone they're wrong, first tell them how they're right — Quartz The 17th century philosopher Blaise Pascal is perhaps best known for Pascal’s Wager which, in the first formal use of decision theory, argued that believing in God is the most pragmatic decision. But it seems the French thinker also had a knack for psychology. As Brain Pickings points out, Pascal set out the most effective way to get someone to change their mind, centuries before experimental psychologists began to formally study persuasion: When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. Pascal added: People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. Put simply, Pascal suggests that before disagreeing with someone, first point out the ways in which they’re right.
The Tech Revolution Might Kill Economic Growth But Make Us All Happier Anyway Matt Yglesias makes a point worth sharing about technology and economic growth: It seems entirely conceivable to me that future technological progress simply won't lead to that much economic growth. If we become much more efficient at building houses, that will increase GDP, because the output of the housing sector is selling housing. those treatments become more effective at curing cancer, that'd be great for patients and their families but it's not obvious that it would raise "productivity" in the economic sense. Yglesias provides a couple of example of this ambiguity. This is a point that plenty of economists have made, but it's worth repeating. This isn't a bulletproof case.
Alan Watts on the Most Important Realization You Can Come to About Life If you haven’t heard of Alan Watts, he was a famous philosopher, speaker and writer on mindfulness, Buddhism and eastern philosophy. Coming from Britain, Alan Watts was one of the first pioneers to popularize these teachings for a western audience. Here is a profound quote from one of his talks: “[Successful meditation brings about realizations:] That we are no longer this poor little stranger and afraid in a world it never made. But that you are this universe and you are creating it in every moment… Because you see it starts now, it didn’t begin in the past, there was no past. See, if the universe began in the past when that happened it was now; see, but it’s still now — and the universe is still beginning now, and it’s trailing off like the wake of a ship from now, and that wake fades out so does the past. Alan Watts has also concluded that living in the present moment is the real secret of life:
Direct Democracy, 2.0 Angelika Warmuth/DPA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Members of the Pirate Party attended a conference in Neumünster, Germany, last month. I FIRST took real notice of the Pirates last summer during the campaign for city elections in Berlin. German electioneering is quaint, even faintly musty by American standards. “Why am I hanging here anyway?” When the Pirates captured a surprising 9 percent of the vote, I ventured out to their election-night party at a scruffy club in the traditional counterculture neighborhood of Kreuzberg. Though the Pirates are mostly known as a one-issue party advocating Internet freedom, Mr. The idea of electing someone as your proxy for two, four or even six long years may have been a necessity in the days of the American Constitutional Convention, when representatives rode to the capital by horseback. “Written language allowed people to communicate over time, the printing press to reach people en masse,” Mr.
Panpsychism: The idea that everything from spoons to stones are conscious is gaining academic credibility In the tumultuous months after protests and riots wracked Jakarta, bringing down Indonesian president Haji Muhammad Suharto in May 1998, a British political consultancy arrived on the scene. SCL Group, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica (CA), says it came to southeast Asia’s most populous nation at the behest of “pro-democratic groups” to “assist with a national campaign of political reform and democratization.” The country was still reeling from the Asian economic crisis that started in 1997 and the exit of a leader who had held on to power for three decades. The British firm’s assignment eventually included surveying thousands of Indonesians, managing communications for politicians and, most curiously, organizing large rallies at universities to help students “let off steam,” according to company documents accessed by Quartz. The documents, issued around 2013, also highlight SCL’s role in nearby countries. After Suharto’s fall “Large rallies were organised at each university.