Richard FarrSep 7, 2016Big numbers, immortality, and Jimbo Joyce’s hellGraham’s Number, folksily abbreviated to “g64,” was long famous as the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof. I quote...
Richard FarrSep 7, 2016“Did someone really write a whole book on the meaning of the term ‘bulls**t’?”Yes! One of the characters in Ghosts in the Machine mentions this, and it’s true! Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s On Bullshit is...
Richard FarrSep 7, 2016“You teach philosophy. What IS philosophy?”In my first philosophy class, the professor began by saying something I've been repeating ever since: “Philosophy asks just two...