No matter what side of the evolution debate you fall on, Charles Darwin is the exemplar of disinterested scientific inquiry. Darwin also successfully maintains an unparalleled passion for the study of nature which reveals itself in the comprehensive corpus of empirical data presented to the us, not for the sake of argument, but rather for [...]
In “The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology,” Alvin Plantinga argues that belief in God need not be justified by the proofs and arguments of natural theology in order to be held rationally by believers. In order to show this, he develops an epistemological position in which some beliefs are properly basic, or rightly held with [...]
What struck me as the greatest theme in Philosophical Letters is Voltaire’s fascination with progress. We read in the introduction about a library fund bequeathed to young Voltaire in order to stoke the fire of his precocious curiosity, and Letters is an intermediate result of years of study in disparate fields. Naturally, I began by [...]
I enjoyed Montaigne’s essays more than any of the great books we have read so far for three reasons: (1) Montaigne’s writings are the most philosophically viable; (2) his reasoning is straightforward, cogent, and demonstratively corroborated by some of the most influential thinkers of all time; (3) I feel that Montaigne is a realistic expectation [...]
Company make Flikr knock-off.
Company valued at $3 million.
Company raise $11.5 million in venture capital.
Company go boom when venture capitalists want out six months later.
A great debate about the situation can be found here. Some facts not included in the original blog article:
FilmLoop had been trying for 1.5 years to come up with a viable revenue [...]
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