D.G. Philosophy

Figure I The Sphere of Politics The delirium of the world of the pure ideological is a space that is a construct however it is a space where opinions make more sense than logical facts. I hope that it comes to no surprise that facts are not always logically intuitive. For many individuals the subjectivity of political theory is fascinating. The power of the rhetoric of a political ideology can influence just about anything in the realm of the human civilization. Natural phenomena such as gravity and the seeming magic qualities of mathematics are out of the grasp of any human being. Part of the appeal of the hard sciences is that the rigour of physics is out of reach for a majority of ordinary people. This leaves physics in the hands of a select few. The pristine nature of the sciences makes the realms of mathematics and physics unappealing. In 2012 I realised how critical political science is. It occurred to me that politics is much...

7-12-2018        More Postmodernism Examination Objections to Capitalism are vast. Today, aspects of critical analysis are significantly less sophisticated and not nearly as nuanced as they once were. We, as a species, have come to a point in history in which we are starting to see the undeniable interconnectivity of many aspects of certain realms that were once each seen as disconnected. Today, not only can an individual see the content of information itself as being connected but also ideas and realms as being indirectly connected. On the surface, there seems to be no direct link between the future of mankind and physics or the linguistics of the English language and mathematics, political science, and computer science. Today, there are many lines that can be drawn that connect the social sciences with the hard sciences. It’s not Capitalism that has played a fair share in the devolved societies but the...

 I would like to invite my readers to comment on any (and all of my posts) and please give me feedback. The following posts shall be responses to various videos of lectures and texts: This year happens to be a year in which two international events occur. One event is currently underway and the other is going to occur in the upcoming months. Brasil has a reputation as the country with one of the greatest football teams in the world (if not the greatest). The FIFA World Cup is hosted by a different country every four years. The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is a conference hosted in a different country every four years by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) . The Fields Medal is awarded to the brightest mathematical scholars in the world under the age of 40 years old. Ironically, Brasil (or Brazil) shall host the ICM this year. Brazil hosted the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The following post is dedicated to a unique individ...

The French philosopher Michel Foucault was a well known scholar who made an effort to hide reporters, journalists, and others  from the truth of his upbringing and his family. He was secretive. However, although there are scholars who prefer not to discuss other aspects of their (personal) lives, many simply are ordinary professionals doing a job. I am one who is not completely opposed to discussing aspects of my own life. That said, I shall discuss one story that one of my former professors told me. My mathematics professor shared that he used to have ambitions of becoming a violinist (* note I think of Albert Einstein who stated that he would have been a violinist if he were not a physicist). My professor had a well-known violin teacher where he grew up, in South Africa. My professor said that he was not particularly talented as a violinist and did not excel as a pupil of music. My professor recalled a story which his teacher told him “I have played (a certain piece) hundreds of ...

What Bothers A Philosopher of Maths? Throughout the time span of (roughly) 9 years I have been in contact with dozens of scholars. The culture of the world of pure academics of the Ivy League towers has a notorious reputation. Not long ago (as of a few months ago) I came upon a comment of a YouTube comment on a video on mathematics (forgive me for I am unable to remember the first video that I came upon) by Sylvain Poirier. I was very impressed that I had found a like minded scholar so I decided to contact him. I would like to refer all of my readers to his website / http://settheory.net . I do think that there are many scholars (and students) whom would find settheory.net to be helpful (useful and interesting). I ask the question can mathematics brake or be broken? I would like to write about one particular paragraph from one specific article online “A Beginner’s Guide to Forcing” by Timothy Chow. One sentence in a particular paragraph stood o...