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From what I've read, the only reason he said he was unhappy with the chants was at Ivanka's cajoling. But throwing his supporters under a bus didn't p...

More funny/sad. But we don't have to go as far as the Guardian to highlight this kind of absurdity. Right here in this discussion you have the asinine...

Let's all go out and tell some Jewish Americans to go back to where they came from because Republicans not at all being utter hypocrites will pat us o...

Here's another funny/sad. The exact words Trump tweeted are quoted in federal guidelines as being a racist comment that is against the law to utter in...

Funny, while Trump's minions are out there pretending he hasn't been openly racist, one was asked by Chris Cuomo: "Well, what if he said he was actual...

Banned @"Ilya B Shambat" for persistently posting low quality OPs copy-pasted from elsewhere on the internet after being warned not to.

Others can just look at the data re Phil majors. http://dailynous.com/2019/01/03/philosophy-majors-make-money-majors-humanities-field/

@"Wallows" https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/democratic-socialism-social-democracy-nordic-countries Worth a read. (Particularly re the essential ownershi...

Depends who you ask. It does go well beyond Marx but he's still the dominant figure, certainly in unis.

How would you define socialism such that it excludes Marxism? Or are you just saying that the two are not the same thing?

I'd pay it myself except I'm a broke socialist relying on capitalist charity to live. Which reminds me, I'll need a coupla more centuries on that loan...

Tbh, I'm speculating from what I know from unis outside the U.S.

Marx is not generally covered in finance and accounting though maybe to some degree in economics whereas he's likely to feature more in philosophy cou...

Because they understand it. Hence by far the lowest numbers of unsures.

But why can't we applaud someone for the important things while ignoring everything else? I mean we all applaud Hitler for reducing joblessness, don't...

Just watched the full video and it is fucking awesome. More so for its implications for broader language acquisition and sociocultural research than a...

Well, writing is one of the things I do and I like to jazz things up sometimes. I've admitted before it's self-indulgent but I'd always be willing to ...

No you didn't. You picked one sentence from a thinker you're unfamiliar with and strawmanned him on the basis of interpreting the words in that senten...

Just read the posts and the quotes. You're wasting our time here. And no it wasn't a personal attack any more than your comment on Vygotsky was a pers...

The advice goes without saying. What it often comes down to is which theory is least inconsistent with the observable facts of language learning. For ...

So you're arguing against a behaviourist approach a la Skinner (which is thoroughly outdated and has been refuted anyway) not against Vygotsky who pro...

So, it's rubbish but it's certainly mostly true? You seem to be having trouble with the concept 'rubbish'. Perhaps some thought would help. Your posts...

"(No bumps allowed. If you want to attract replies, think of a better way)." https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/480/site-guidelines/p1 Coincide...

As per un's point, the extent to which the lack of activity referred to as laziness is so referred in that pejorative sense is fairly arbitrary across...

When you throw crap at Trump, he just eats it and shits roses. In fact, this place is entirely a product of his colon.

First came across him through a uni course in linguistics. Haven't read as much of him as I should have, but from what I have, I like the way he rolls...

Oh, I mean more or or less the gradual development of self-consciousness (viewed as self-reflexive social functioning) which occurs through the gradua...

Please don't do that.

Vygotsky categorises this as the movement from word to concept: " concept is more than the sum of certain associative bonds formed by memory, more tha...

Yep, while children's ability at explicit logical analysis of language is obviously far poorer on average than adults, they are highly sensitive to th...

Proving, using the same kind of simplistic logic / non-science that pollutes most of your OP, that feminism makes women more beautiful / slimmer etc. ...

You might be interested in this one, un. https://k-punk.org/democracy-is-joy/ "For human beings who want to move in the direction of love and freedom,...

I've only sparred with Lacan and found some of his concepts intuitively attractive. Maybe csal who sounds like he's done the full 12 rounds.

Positing the negation of identity accompanying incursions of the real as necessarily traumatic doesn't imply (in my book) nothing good can come from t...

I'm conceptualising the real (or the Real) here as that place utterly beyond identity and the social, but in which the potential for identity via the ...

Colin Kaepernick: 1, Conservative Karma: 0.

@"Brett" As @"Bitter Crank" alluded to, logic is not normally a method by which thought processes, but a method through which the processes of thought...

The Atrocity Exhibition - J.G Ballard (Particularly funny chapters: "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" and "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kenne...

More from the article: "...my question about whether we can be persuaded into the “right” belief about our “true selves” rests on the false idea that ...

Heidegger rolling in the flowers type thing? Speculative again, but depends how condensed the joy of transgression is into the fear of punishment. I'd...

Some cultures are more heterogeneous than others though. And American culture would be well out on that scale. Hence your culture wars etc. Ilya's (im...

Maybe the Lacanian real is a useful concept here. The ultimate "reality" is a monstrous, suffocating, inhuman, and even forcefully antihuman... well, ...

Looks a little too much like a submission for The Onion, Ilya.

God knows you need them. Let's start a collection. @"schopenhauer1" Funnily enough, I had just been thinking along related lines when I came across th...

Yes, I'd put it that identities are products of the prevailing mythos, or ideology. And facts are wrapped around ideologies, presenting as clear and u...

Yes, that's her and thanks!

My sister's in LA. Being Irish, she just presumed she was drunk when the quake hit.

Kind of like when a newborn's diapers fail and they have to rely on their personal knowledge of hygiene.

In principle, the subject matter is fine as a serious philosophical topic. (Or a scientific one).

It'd be far juicier than what I'm proof-reading right now, which is about as dry as a sun-fried bug in the Arizona desert.