Moliere

So I'd like to settle on a translation, if that's OK. I've tried to not before and it was pretty distracting. Are other folk OK with choosing one or t...

I don't have an excellent background, either. Hence why I'm saying that diving in is probably the best path to knowledge -- I know basics, and I know ...

Of those two I'd opt for Derrida.

I'd be interested in joining in. Of those listed I'd be down, though I think I'd chime in a favorable opinion of "Doing Things with Words"

I feel like most work is a waste of time, were it not for the social caveat that this is how I get a roof over my head and food on the table.

That was an awesome read :D. She really nails (translations of) Aristotle's writing style.

It was a gray morning, temperate, when Dennett had finished reading his third published essay. He had so looked forward to this quarter's Nous, but af...

My initial thought was that, supposing this true, it would fit snugly into the category of facts which morality is concerned about, but wouldn't fit t...

I tend to think that the various ethical theories are good for pondering situations and trying to make good decisions, but I don't think any one of th...

I was just using the terminology that was evoked by anon66 using the word "strange" -- the argument from queerness is the name of one of the arguments...

OK, cool. Then I'll just keep that as a side-note then.

Not exactly. Using mathematics is the basis of comparison, since that was brought up prior as a point of comparison for queerness, I maintain that it ...

Of course not. It would only have to be the case most of the time to show how one could simultaneously believe that mathematics is factual, while mora...

I'm not sure that's a tautology to be honest. You've got two different uses of the copula going on there, by my lights. "it is moral" and then that se...

Is it common sense to treat moral statements as if they are truth-apt, or is it common to perceive people to be treating moral statements as truth-apt...

I'd say that there's something important missing from such an account -- namely, that this is just not what "good", in the moral or ethical sense, mea...

I'd say there's a difference between moral statements being truth-apt, and the assertion that there are true moral statements. It's possible for all m...

Hrmm. I don't know. But that would be an interpretive question more than the problem you pose, I'd say. He's a good spring-board (and a genius to boot...

Fair enough. It was a good opportunity to try to make my point clearer :D.

Immediately what sprang to mind was the passage from A Treatise of Human Nature (which I have marked so it was easy to pop to): From "3.1.1.27" Even d...

I think this is an odd way of talking, at least. I would separate the argument for moral realism from the argument for moral facts. The former is a mo...

Whether it be odd or not would just depend on our expectations. So if we live in a universe which has moral facts, but believe that there are no moral...

Party loyalty is definitely an important part of how the Democratic party functions. It is second only to winning seats. Ruling in good faith might be...

I follow a journalist on Twitter that covers the Syrian conflict on the regular. This includes inspiring stories as well as horrible stories. One of t...

*Applause* Just for you.

Hrrmm. I don't think I know enough to answer. It's better for me to say I am uncertain on what the results would be if more people had followed Malcol...

I see it more as a proof of concept, and something to learn from. Well, it's important to imbed her notion of action in the wider philosophy as well. ...

What do you make of the Spanish revolution, then? OK. Yeah. I have no problem agreeing with that. Though it's worth noting that "action" can cover a l...

Hrmm, I don't think it's that. I'm trying to use your definition that you posited -- the one about desiring cleanliness of society and protection from...

No. I'm saying that even by militant means (what we might call the extreme case) we are not thereby endorsing authoritarian attitudes or asking for mo...

Wouldn't Berkeley count? Not to mention various proposals brought up on these forums.

So I read the Marcuse essay you linked. I'm still inclined to say what I said before. I don't think the essay is promoting authoritarianism -- and I t...

Cool. But, uh, I don't follow your thread of thinking -- unless you mean that I should read the essay before commenting. EDIT: Not that that is a bad ...

I think that's a bit of a side issue. The example is meant to elucidate what I mean by conviction, not to go into the ins-and-outs of white supremacy ...

Heh. Sorry. I hope that is not a damper to conversation. I'll try to explain myself better. On one hand I have thoughts about authoritarianism, which ...

It seems like you're thinking through a lot of questions and I find it hard to reply even though the topic interests me. I can say I agree to these tw...

I look at reductionism more along the lines of the phrase "reduces to..." I don't know if there is any single treatment of reductionism, or if it's at...

It seems to me that any ontology where it is fair to formulate it as "Everything is X" is reductionist. Depending on how you splice it it seems some i...

It seems to me that most of your arguments would apply equally well to any kind of reductionist project. No?

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4444/the-art-of-fiction-no-35-simone-de-beauvoir#.V6yYSz_UqeU.twitter An interview with Simone de Beauvoir tr...

I suppose it's just our different positions in life when it comes to pain. I can say that the worst physical pain I've experienced is not on the level...

Cool. Don't know how you'd deal with the rack, but I'm not terribly keen on making it into an experiment either. Seems that, for yourself at least, yo...

It probably depends on what you mean by "could" or "possible". I said earlier in the thread that I don't think it's even possible to be an Epicurean t...

Those look like a good selection to vote between to me. Let's do a poll.

I think I can grant the assumption, at least on the basis that a pre-narrative self is possible. Sure. But granting the assumption -- would a pre-narr...

Something of a recap: I see a number of different kinds or parts of identity being presented by the fine folks of the forum: There's the personal iden...

What do you mean by "identity is so embedded in language", and how does that relate to circularity? I saw it, but it's been awhile. I remember liking ...

Please do. :) Interesting.

Yeah, I do hope they manage to get it back up. There were a number of posters I liked reading that didn't make the cross over.

Could you speak more about this? I'm still having trouble connecting awareness to identity, even with the example of dementia. Perhaps this is because...