Skip to content

The Electric Agora

A modern symposium for the digital age

  • Home
  • Our Mission
  • Editor
  • Contributors
  • Submissions
  • For Readers
  • Essays
  • This Week’s Special
  • Provocations
  • New York Diary
  • Course Notes
  • Videos
  • Announcements
  • Election Roundup
  • Bits and Pieces
  • From Around the Web

Tag: Probability

Essay

Probability, Creeps, and Accusations: On Kate Manne on Tara Reade

3 weeks ago 75 Comments

Joshua Mozersky ____ Let me begin with a model.  Suppose that there are 1000 men in the country and that 200 of them have committed ‘minor crimes’, things like shoplifting or turnstile jumping.  Next, suppose that 20 of the 1000 have committed ‘major crimes’: murder, kidnapping, assault.  While not everyone who commits a major crime also commits a minor crime, […]

Read More →

Essay

Simulation or Mere Semblance (of an Argument)?

January 2, 2017 41 Comments

E. John Winner **In the following discussion, I am indebted to a paper written by Brian Eggleston, when he was an undergraduate systems analysis student at Stanford University. [1] Much of the recent interest in the idea that we all might be living in a computer simulation, run by an advanced civilization, arises from an argument put forth by Nick […]

Read More →

Want to get involved in The Electric Agora?

The Electric Agora publishes essays, videos, reviews, and humorous pieces, lying at the intersection of philosophy, the humanities, science, and popular culture. If you want to get involved with the magazine, there are three ways you can do so. 1. Submit an article to us! For guidelines, check out the "submissions" page, linked to in the menu above. 2. Join the discussion! For commenting guidelines click on the link "For Readers" in the menu above. 3. "Like" our page on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and/or sign up to follow The Electric Agora, by clicking the relevant links below!

Recent Comments

Zac on Summer of 2020
davidlduffy on Prolegomena for a Pluralist Me…
Ugo Corda on Prolegomena for a Pluralist Me…
Mark English on Prolegomena for a Pluralist Me…
Animal Symbolicum on Prolegomena for a Pluralist Me…
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google

Enter your email address to follow The Electric Agora and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 2,672 other followers

Follow The Electric Agora on WordPress.com

Recent Posts

  • Dialogues with Crispin on the Prolegomena: Vol. 3
  • Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics: Philosophy, Science, and “Common Sense”
  • Summer of 2020
  • Morality and the Social World: Objectivity, Realism, and Normativity
  • Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics: Explanatory Disunity

Most popular at The Electric Agora

  • Is Philosophy OK?
  • Epithets in Philosophy
  • Sex and Sports
  • On Philosophy and Its Progress (a response -- of sorts -- to Massimo Pigliucci)
  • Course Notes – G.E.M Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy”
Essays from The Electric Agora may be redistributed or translated, with attribution and link to our site, under the general rules of the Creative Commons license

Archives

  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015

RSS RSS feed

  • Dialogues with Crispin on the Prolegomena: Vol. 3 July 4, 2020
    The third of my ongoing series of discussions with Crispin Sartwell on my Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics.
    Daniel Kaufman
  • Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics: Philosophy, Science, and “Common Sense” June 30, 2020
    by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ As these prolegomena begin to wind down, I want to step back and speak a bit more generally about the conception of philosophy – and of inquiry more generally — from which they spring. Sellars, of course, in the opening paragraphs of “Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man,” gave his own account of what […]
    Daniel Kaufman

Recent Posts

  • Dialogues with Crispin on the Prolegomena: Vol. 3
  • Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics: Philosophy, Science, and “Common Sense”
  • Summer of 2020
  • Morality and the Social World: Objectivity, Realism, and Normativity
  • Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics: Explanatory Disunity

The Electric Agora Magazine

The Electric Agora Magazine

Tags

2016 election Actions Adolescence Aesthetics Analytic Philosophy Aristotle Art Baby Boomers Bernard Williams Bertrand Russell Causes comedy Critical Thinking Cultural Criticism culture Daily Nous David Hume Donald Trump Epistemology Ethics Feminism Foreign Policy Free Will Gender Generation X History humanities identity Identity Politics Joan Didion John Locke John Stuart Mill Justin Weinberg Kant knowledge language liberal arts liberalism logic metaphysics Millennials Morality music Neoconservatism Ontological Commitment Ontology Panpsychism philosophy Philosophy of Mind Political Philosophy politics progressivism Quine Racism realism Reasons Religion Rhetoric Romanticism Science Sex skepticism social justice Television The American Philosophical Association The Manifest Image The Scientific Image Trans activism Transgender Trump Truth Value W.V.O. Quine Wilfrid Sellars Wittgenstein