The Philosophy of Physical Science: Chapter 1

Currently Reading: The Philosophy of Physical Science by Arthur Eddington.

I think it was probably back all the way in December when I said I was going to start reading this book; it obviously never happened.  I got halfway through the first chapter, got called away on some silly errand and never got back to it during the Christmas break, then I had to go back to school.  I have picked it up again with the intention of working through it and posting some thoughts here.

Today: Chapter I – Scientific Epistemology

 

There’s No Place Like…

Well, finals are finally finished.  Today consisted of cleaning up residents’ messes (apparently a minority of people know how to read “remove all personal belongings from public areas”, so Armington repossessed quite a few things today) and driving back to Fresno, where I am now seated in front of a clunky old Dell PC typing this brief update.

As might be expected, post-fire Westmont is radically different from pre-fire Westmont, and the last bit of the semester was exceptionally challenging on many levels.  I might get into that here at some later point, but this post’s purpose is to put it in writing that this Christmas break I intend to to the following things..