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Joseph Weissman

Atlanta, GA

http://ontology.io

Hi! I'm Joseph.

I am a computer programmer (my Github) and thinker/writer (my working group's blog.)

I'm one of the friendly neighborhood moderators at Philosophy StackExchange. I'm also co-host of a philosophy podcast called Theory Talk.

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Top Questions
61 votes

How to generate correlated random numbers (given means, variances and degree of correlation)?

probability correlation conditional-probability random-generation asked Oct 7, 2012 at 19:45
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53 votes

Does water swirl the opposite way on the other hemisphere?

physics water asked Mar 7, 2011 at 3:33
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33 votes

Is a kill switch being considered to shut down the internet?

united-states politics internet asked Mar 6, 2011 at 3:42
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33 votes

Where and how can I get started in contemporary philosophy?

reference-request asked Jun 10, 2011 at 0:00
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32 votes

What are the philosophical implications of Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem?

epistemology philosophy-of-mathematics goedel formal-theory truth asked Jun 11, 2011 at 16:21
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30 votes

Is there a deep, hot biosphere?

biology oil geology fossil-fuel asked Mar 20, 2011 at 14:44
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What are some common jazz chord progressions?

chords chord-progressions jazz asked Jun 18, 2011 at 20:06
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25 votes

Any way to determine which object called a method?

ruby messaging introspection dynamic-languages asked Apr 24, 2010 at 3:43
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24 votes

Does telepathy exist?

psychology esp asked Mar 5, 2011 at 2:23
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22 votes

Are the unexamined lives of others worth examining?

epistemology socrates plato social-critique asked Jun 8, 2011 at 0:52
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Top Answers
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Read url to string in few lines of java code
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How Do I Loop Through a Date Range in Reverse?
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What makes a project big?
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What are the major branches of philosophy?
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What should a rational person accept as a miracle?
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How will learning about philosophy impact real-life?
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Was Robin Hood's point of view ethically sound?
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Why is a lion not evil?
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Why has the philosophy of Bishop Berkeley fallen out of favor in academic philosophy?
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What is the purpose of the universe?
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What are the retorts to Searle's Chinese Room?
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Rails - How to create a model linked to TWO of another model
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Can cruelty and suffering be justified if it might lead to social transformation?
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What basis do we have for certainty in current scientific theories?
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Is Activism Effective?
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13
Calculating the angle between two lines without having to calculate the slope? (Java)
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Why does this Sinon mock have a mocked method that is not a function?
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12
Can I have onClick() event for <h1> to <h6> tags?
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12
Library to render Directed Graphs (similar to graphviz) on Google App Engine
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11
Is race a discredited scientific concept in biology?
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What, if anything, is the difference between ethics and moral philosophy?
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Is there any moral reasoning behind punishment?
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My first job in a dev team - what should my priorities be?
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Embed font in webpage
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What was Kant's view on lies by omission?
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When and why do we say that two things are the same?
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8
Major Questions resolved or unresolved in Philosophy
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Arguments for/against tolerance against intolerance?
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What did John Passmore mean when he reported that logical positivism "is dead"?
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What is the philosophical problem with Skolem's Paradox?
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