ext_78464 ([identity profile] gnommi.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] gnommi 2008-09-05 11:03 am (UTC)

yeah I have read Dennett (though not in anger) and seen him speak live at the RSA and other places a few times. he makes a lot of good points but I can't say I always agree 100%. (ooh, get me!)

like you say, its a no-brainer that science and philosophy are indivisible, but I have a feeling that Conway-Morris is just having a gripe with big words so that he can justify slagging off Dawkins for being shallow, short-sighted and unduly obsessed with mechanistic minutiae

not that i disagree with him ;)

anyway it can't hurt to read up on all this stuff right? *remembers having a minor breakdown whilst trying to read Wittgenstein's Blue and Brown Books*

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