Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits (John Barrow) and other useful books...
Offline It's come to my attention, having been floating around these forums for a while, that my knowledge of logic, formal debate, philosophy and mathematics is limited at best. In a bid to fix this I've started doing what any sane person should do; I've started reading books (huzzah!).
Very recently I came across a pdf of the book mentioned in the title of this thread. Where better to start in educating oneself than to learn about impossibility? I've read the first 20 pages or so and it seems quite interesting. I wondered if anyone here has read it that could give me an informed review? Is it worth continuing? Or is there somewhere else I should be looking to learn about the concepts of impossibility?
Also, could anyone suggest useful 'primers' on logic and philosophy?
M
Forget Jesus, the stars died so that you could be here
- Lawrence Krauss
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Try this:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2923277/forallx-An-Introduction-To-Formal-Logic
"Physical reality” isn’t some arbitrary demarcation. It is defined in terms of what we can systematically investigate, directly or not, by means of our senses. It is preposterous to assert that the process of systematic scientific reasoning arbitrarily excludes “non-physical explanations” because the very notion of “non-physical explanation” is contradictory.
-Me
Books about atheism
Thanks DG, I'll have a look
M