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Richard Carrier
Personal blog · richardcarrier.blogspot.comhistoryphilosophy
Richard Carrier's personal blog at richardcarrier.blogspot.com covers history and philosophy. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Richard Carrier's blog as a source on the history of science in the Middle Ages and on defining the supernatural. One commenter suggested readers skim his pages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Announcing appearances, publications, and occasional thoughts on natural philosophy and ancient history by philosopher, historian, and author Richard Carrier.
What Hacker News says?
Well, I'm basing that particular claim on the published opinion of a professional academic historian of science. If you or anyone else interested has a lot of free time, you may want to skim these pages by Dr. Richard Carrier: http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2006/11/science-and-medie... http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/search/label/history%20of... https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/14660 Unfortunately, es…
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on “The End of the Roman Empire Wasn’t That Bad”Submitted Experimental History as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat seems to me like a natural argument against a natural hypothesis, rather than a proof that the hypothesis is supernatural. I guess I'm using a definition of "supernatural" like Richard Carrier's: "mental things [that] cannot be reduced to nonmental things" ( http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2007/01/defining-supernat... ). So under this definition wizards, psychics, ghosts and gods are all supernatural; but Bi…
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on “Sherlock Holmes May Not Have Been a Real Crime-Fighter, but His Creator Was”