Baden

Philosophy makes us arrogant? I wouldn't have thought so. If anything, I'd say doing philosophy is a good way to teach ourselves humility. As for recl...

"Running through the day's activities" is poor phrasing. It makes it sound like some kind of playback mechanism. So, if that's the way the researchers...

I don't have a good answer for that. It depends on where you draw the boundaries to the self. Sleep complicates things and not just in terms of dreams...

This doesn't just apply to historical events but to current affairs too. I had a similar problem in looking for reliable information about the recent ...

I'll ignore the "professional" part as it doesn't apply to many of us, including me, but I'm reminded of the scene in a Jack Nicholson movie where he ...

Cheers. I'll take a look.

Well, it's true that nobody's going to top @"Mayor of Simpleton"'s bowl. :)

I did an images search on him to get a better look at his work. It's good stuff. Speaking of good stuff: @"Cavacava", I love that tree. Have you got a...

I agree there must be great challenges in such work but not that these challenges preclude that work from being considered interpretive. The way great...

It depends on the level of description. The question of whether we have free will of any kind in dreams is an interesting one though.

I would say if I was being beaten purely for pleasure, I would feel more animosity towards the person inflicting the beating than if they were doing i...

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Nice view...

It's not a bad analogy. Dreams are a way of processing our emotional lives in a relatively safe manner. Or, maybe - to put it more boringly - just the...

Dreams provide me with characterizations/personifications of my emotional life with which my dream self can interact. And I find that interaction ofte...

HaHa! :D

Yes, I like the bowl too. Looks like it would make a good helmet in the event of a nuclear strike.

Are you simply problematizing here the notion of art restoration, claiming that art restoration may be less restoration than re-creation or degradatio...

I presumed it was "philosophy" + "forum" but I can't check because Google is blocked and my vpn is playing up.

Interestingly, I've hardly had to moderate anything at all here (or maybe someone else keeps getting there first). (See what I did there :) ).

Interesting stuff. I reckon we're doing pretty well for a fortnight on the road. Cheers for the update.

I've made a couple of consecutive postings myself, Bert. I wouldn't worry about it.

Cheers, mate. They're an expressive lot. :)

Good work @"shmik" and @"Cavacava". I thought I'd add the one below which I took near my place in Thailand where a troop of Macaques live. /uploads/fi...

@"TheWillowOfDarkness" and @"invizzy" - I'm reminded of a study done where subjects were to suppose the Mona Lisa had been burnt in a fire and reduced...

8-) Really like the one of the guy on the floor. Great colours and lines. I've got quite a few people pics on my Flickr thread (the one Yahoo in their...

The un has spoken. X-)

I've been doing photography on and off for almost all my adult life, usually not very consistently. I got into a bit of photojournalism a couple of ye...

Oh, just the photos invizzy. Square and abstract is the format I'm most comfortable with at the moment. Thanks for taking a look anyway, mate. :)

I more or less agree with this but I wonder how much freedom we actually have on this point. Can we really know what judgments of ours are a result of...

Moving back away from dicks...There seem to be two clear themes here: 1) Dreams as changing in form according to sociocultural/historical context. 2) ...

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8-) Feel free to put anything you have up.

I guess it's a reflection of the human tendency to think we are smarter than we actually are and to want everyone else to agree with that self-apprais...

Well deserved. And thanks @"Tiff" for flying the flag on FB. (Y)

I don't use twitter but I have put the word out on Facebook. As much as I'm not a fan of FB, it is useful for this kind of thing.

I think it's an issue of gradation on a double level. There is a spectrum of empathy that traverses the range from subjects we know nothing about to t...

I changed my mind in the end and went for the Davidson, which was ahead last I looked.

I don't think the prevalent view here is that the rich are inherently bad. The question was specifically about fines. I don't see anyone here suggesti...

I think if we go down the route of aesthetics and beauty when judging art, we will find ourselves lost very quickly. When judging art I think it makes...

They certainly don't have much of a sense of humour about it at the moment nor do some others over there. I'd rather we concentrate on the philosophy ...

Yes.

I think that was about me. They took a post of mine too seriously, deleted all trace of it and won't let me post in reply to any criticism of it. It w...

The way we do it here seems more logical to me too. It's a forum with categories. Full stop. But, of course, each to their own and @"Postmodern Beatni...

Thanks for the encouraging words @"Sentient" and best wishes. We appreciate your contribution, and hope if you ever change your mind, we'll be your fi...

The Hacker one (despite the name!) already has my vote. Hopefully this time I'll have time to get involved.

No, there's definitely styrofoam in there. :P

This is what I'm trying to get at. There seems to be a tension in your joint claims that the only thing worthwhile is pleasure and that ethics is obje...

So ethics is important/worthwhile in itself, right?

Let's do that one too: Why is ethics important to you? The original question was: Why is talking about your philosophical worldview important to you?