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In most of the Socratic dialogues, Socrates professes to inquire into some virtue. At the same time, he professes not to know what the virtue in question is. How, then, can he inquire into it? Doesn't he need some knowledge to guide his inquiry? Socrates' disclaimer of knowledge seems to preclude Socratic inquiry. This difficulty must confront any reader of the Socratic dialogues; but one searches them in vain for any explicit statement of the problem or for any explicit solution to it. The Meno, by contrast, both raises it explicitly and proposes a solution.

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Recommended: Edo Airoldi, David M. Blei, Stephen E. Fienberg, Anna Goldenberg, Eric P. Xing and Alice X. Zheng (eds.), Statistical Network Analysis: Models, Issues, and New Directions [Disclaimer: contains one of my papers .] Aaron Clauset and Cristopher Moore, "Accuracy and Scaling Phenomena in Internet Mapping", cond-mat/0410059 = Physical Review Letters 94 (2005).

Here are some essays written at various times. What does it mean to be rational? American History for Valley Girls The Chief Seattle Theme Park Here's a Manifesto of the Newtonian Brotherhood of Truly Christian Scientists . I regret to say that it has turned out to be necessary to explicitly characterize it as humor. I didn't mind that some careless readers accused me of being a bigot, but I had to put in a disclaimer when some readers emailed me with their support for the ideas.

In the case of Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al., Judge Jones ruled that a pro-intelligent design disclaimer cannot be read to public school students. In his decision, he gave demarcation criteria for what counts as science, ruling that intelligent design fails these criteria. I argue that these criteria are flawed, with most of my focus on the criterion of methodological naturalism. The way to refute intelligent design is not by declaring it unscientific, but by showing that the empirical evidence for design is not there.

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The course falls into three parts. In the first part, encompassing Chapters 2-6, we shall streamline and upgrade the treatment of sentence and predicate calculi already familiar from the introductory course. In the second part, which is Chapter ??, we shall prove the completeness of the predicate calculus utilising methods and techniques acquired in the first part. In the third part, consisting of Chapters 8-9, we shall discuss some elements of the theory of algorithms. We shall then make inroads into metamathematics and prove G¨ odel’s famous incompleteness theorems. Finally, in Chapter 10, we shall formulate some important model-theoretic results, but omit most of the proofs. Disclaimer. These notes do not constitute an attempt of writing a book. Some of the issues discussed here may have been amended, expanded, or further explained in the class.