Tag: Obama

• The Ship of Theseus sails in Water (and not H2O)

  

  The difference between natural language and the language of science The problem of reference in philosophy deals with relations of words to the world. Do words correspond to some mind-independent objects in the external world? In the following text, I propose the thesis that “reference” is one area where science and everyday affairs take sharp,…

  rrameez

  September 15, 2013

  Modeling, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Science

  Aristotle, Chomsky, H2O vs Water, Hilary Putnam, Hume, Language, Locke, Obama, Plato, Princess and the Frog, Ship of Theseus, Wittgenstein

• The Ghost of Bob Dylan: On the two models of poetry

  I remember I first listened to Bob Dylan’s songs back in 2004 when I was studying in the small town of Colchester (the oldest town, and the first capital of Britain). I found myself relating to his songs in a way that I had never related to music before. The combination of his powerful lyrics…

  rrameez

  May 26, 2013

  Arts and Modeling

  antiwar, Art for art’s sake, Bob Dylan, civil rights, Faiz, Iqbal, Joan Baez, Obama, Pablo Neruda, Poetry, Protest poetry, revolution, Sahir, sixties, The Ghost of Bob Dylan