Comments on: Weekend Roundup http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/09/weekend-roundup-9/ The Big Questions | Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:35:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: caveat bettor http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/09/weekend-roundup-9/comment-page-1/#comment-1833 caveat bettor Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:30:03 +0000 http://www.thebigquestions.com/?p=1839#comment-1833 I didn't see Blaise Pascal, William Wilberforce, Thomas Kuhn or Fischer Black. Not sure why Woody Allen or a few others get ranked ahead of any of them. I didn’t see Blaise Pascal, William Wilberforce, Thomas Kuhn or Fischer Black. Not sure why Woody Allen or a few others get ranked ahead of any of them.

]]> By: Al V. http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/09/weekend-roundup-9/comment-page-1/#comment-1761 Al V. Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:42:56 +0000 http://www.thebigquestions.com/?p=1839#comment-1761 If I counted correctly, here is everyone listed by multiple contributors: - Richard Feynman (4) - Adam Smith (3) - Joseph Schumpeter (3) - JS Bach (3) - Alan Turing (2) - Aristotle (2) - Bertrand Russell (2) - Charles Darwin (2) - Gregor Mendel (2) - Grover Cleveland (2) - Kurt Godel (2) - Woody Allen (2) If I counted correctly, here is everyone listed by multiple contributors:
- Richard Feynman (4)
- Adam Smith (3)
- Joseph Schumpeter (3)
- JS Bach (3)
- Alan Turing (2)
- Aristotle (2)
- Bertrand Russell (2)
- Charles Darwin (2)
- Gregor Mendel (2)
- Grover Cleveland (2)
- Kurt Godel (2)
- Woody Allen (2)

]]> By: Joe Z http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/09/weekend-roundup-9/comment-page-1/#comment-1760 Joe Z Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:06:12 +0000 http://www.thebigquestions.com/?p=1839#comment-1760 The funny thing about participating in this exercise is that your brain keeps working on it long after you've stop paying attention to it. So, I'm adding Joseph Campbell to my list. How could I have forgotten about him! The funny thing about participating in this exercise is that your brain keeps working on it long after you’ve stop paying attention to it. So, I’m adding Joseph Campbell to my list. How could I have forgotten about him!

]]> By: Peter http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/09/weekend-roundup-9/comment-page-1/#comment-1756 Peter Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:45:57 +0000 http://www.thebigquestions.com/?p=1839#comment-1756 I would still love to hear a defense of Lincoln - especially on a week starting out with unwarranted beliefs. I would still love to hear a defense of Lincoln – especially on a week starting out with unwarranted beliefs.

]]> By: Snorri Godhi http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/09/weekend-roundup-9/comment-page-1/#comment-1755 Snorri Godhi Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:28:28 +0000 http://www.thebigquestions.com/?p=1839#comment-1755 Steven Landsburg arguably deserves to be in this list just for going to the trouble of compiling it! That gives me an idea: I am going to put my own picture in my gallery of heroes. Seriously, I might have put The Armchair Economist in a list of books that most influenced me [excluding textbooks], especially chapters 4 and 8; but that would be another list. No other remarks come to mind at the moment, except that I am happy to see 2 people in the list associated with Conan the Barbarian: Basil Poledouris and Gerry Lopez. Steven Landsburg arguably deserves to be in this list just for going to the trouble of compiling it! That gives me an idea: I am going to put my own picture in my gallery of heroes.

Seriously, I might have put The Armchair Economist in a list of books that most influenced me [excluding textbooks], especially chapters 4 and 8; but that would be another list.

No other remarks come to mind at the moment, except that I am happy to see 2 people in the list associated with Conan the Barbarian: Basil Poledouris and Gerry Lopez.

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