Résultats lu par "J.-M. Kuczynski" dans Toutes les catégories

A short piece about the psychology of non-buyers.

It is argued that the quantum realm is deterministic.

A compendium of some of Kuczynski's more readable work on philosophy, scientific methodology, and the theory of knowledge.

To have integrity is to be true to oneself. Someone who is half an upstanding citizen and half a criminal is not true to himself and therefore lacks integrity. Someone who is completely an upstanding citizen or completely a criminal is true to himself and therefore has integrity.

Academic journals are clogged with gratuitous scholarship. This prevents the advancement of the corresponding disciplines in many ways, five of which are identified in this short work.

Geekdom is not only not a sign of intelligence, but is a sign of its absence.

One of the ways in which we rationalize bad work on the part of eminent persons is explained.

Don't fight your pychopathologies. Get them to work for you. Identify a course of action in which your psychopathologies are an asset, not a liability. In this way, you will get them to work for you and against themselves.

Evil is displaced antipathy towards one's own superego, whose strictures one has failed to satisfy and which one is therefore trying to overthrow.

Evil is anti-conscience and therefore presupposes conscience.

Had John Cage been a professor at a community college, he would have been laughed out of a job. But because he was at Harvard, people read depths into the rubbish that he produced. Resist the temptation to see depths in junk. Junk is junk, and that's the end of it. The rest is projective rationalization.

It is not double-think and self-deception that have to be explained, but rather their absence, as the mind's aboriginal condition is one of disunity, and consequent incoherence, not of unity and coherence.

The objective of terrorism is more terrorism. Therefore, terrorism is never justified.

The world is getting small and cramped. We are becoming a race of cowards and bureaucrats. In order to become conquerors once again, we must move beyond the pathetically narrow corridors of Earthly existence; and the most obvious way to do that is to colonize Mars.

Academic journals exist to prevent, not to encourage the growth of the corresponding academic disciplines.

It is proved that there is unconscious mental activity.

It is proved that, even though the universe is predictable only to the extent that it is deterministic, a completely deterministic universe is nonetheless not completely predictable, even in principle.

Three kinds of hardness - of ways that things can be difficult - are described.

In this series of dialogues - clear, concise and cogent answers are given.

Given the distinction between knowledge and awareness, a number of important philosophical principles are readily proved.