Jamal

To me, it demonstrates a distinct lack of character to fail to appreciate fish tacos, jazz, and mountains, at least two of which are very hard to find...

Are there countries one can fail to appreciate without thereby demonstrating a lack of character?

Doesn't the distinction between spectral colour and perceptual colour resolve your dispute?

I've made the following point before, a point that seems to be mostly ignored. A baker declining to bake a cake representing something he disagrees wi...

How bizarre. Who decides if the criticism of the treatment of women in strictly devout Muslim families or communities is speaking truth to power (patr...

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General guidance?

This could be fruitful. What about a "What do you like about Hanover" discussion?

The study concludes that "careful siting of new reservoirs" is required. Kate Horner, on the other hand, is an anti-dam activist.

Yep. I think we'd be crazy to ditch Plush, for those reasons and others.

Yeh I get it: it would be a good web dev project for sure.

There's plenty of free open-source forum software around, some of it very cool, developed by teams of top-class developers and designers. We could cus...

I and the rest of the staff are but servants of you, the people.

You may be interested to learn that Plush is based on a fork of Vanilla Forums.

In the beginning we had big plans to publish a lot of high-quality articles in a nice format--that was one of @"Hanover"'s ideas, I think--and an inde...

What is it and what does it involve? Sounds fine though.

Installing software on my own server and then customizing it would have been too much work. PlushForums doesn't allow much customization because it's ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2KuJCZuEso https://www.google.es/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png Works for me. If you pas...

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No rush, Q. To be honest, I was testing to see if you were genuinely interested in his philosophy, rather than just in his life. When I was younger I ...

What do you think of the Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough?

And yet, when you read those remarks on Frazer that Nils Loc posted, what comes across is a lively kind of fellow-feeling--a sympathy for human beings...

I'd certainly like to see debates. I'm not sure about the real-time thing, but if the participants were to agree on those rules, then sure.

Incidentally, this is one of our many disagreements.

Thinking about this some more... What might work better than inviting celebrity philosophy professors, as on PF, is inviting popular bloggers or podca...

I haven't considered it, and on old PF it seemed like a lot of trouble for nothing very interesting or exciting. Others may think differently, so I'm ...

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Talk about a straw man. If those values do equally apply to men and women, then how can they be sexist? Why do you think I would hold such an irration...

Notice how this is pretty much the opposite of the traditional understanding of these political positions. For conservatives, the status quo, e.g., cl...

And that is precisely what universities ought to be encouraging: independence of mind and the free play of ideas. But that's not what's happening now....

I don't recall agreeing with you in that debate. I remember you as one of my main adversaries, hence why I called you a petit bourgeois reactionary li...

Interestingly, though, I seem to disagree with you and BC as much as agree.

Last time I did it I was about the same as you for the first two tests, maybe a bit more libertarian. I got bored with the other one.

I think the difference is that the objects of science are described or defined entirely in terms of their measurable properties, via their effects. Bu...

You're not, because in saying that God has measurable effects you're assuming that God exists, so the argument begs the question. Others have pointed ...

One thing is the problem of ancestrality (not that Schopenhauer uses that term): I don't know if that's the kind of thing Mongrel had in mind, or whet...

Or maybe this: Australia’s Brutal Treatment of Migrants

This has become Agustino's rantbox.

(Y)

There be dragons.

Then count me out.

The SEP takes the alternatives seriously: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/facts

I notice the land masses in the last image there are in fact orange, perhaps indicating the dominance of the Dutch in the future communist utopia.

I think that's a bad analogy, because those terms are defined strictly in physics, whereas you couldn't get all philosophers to agree on what a fact i...

He preferred poodles to women.

I'm not saying it's not physical, although I do believe this to be a category error. I'm saying that unlike flying it's not uncontroversial to say tha...

Too confusing. Physically identical flying pigs are uncontroversially inconceivable. It is a contradiction, since by flying we just mean, and have alw...

But Michael is right, and you have failed to get your point across. I take your point to be that one would only affirm that p-zombies are conceivable ...

Well like I say, that's where things get interesting. (Y)

Hello and welcome @"dclements". I'm here 8-) In case you don't know, we set up this forum specifically for PF members when it was sold back in 2015. M...