Don't be so modest, reading the entire CPR (let alone doing so more than once!!!) and doing so with your sanity intact is no small feat- plenty of bri...
It seems like you didn't hear me the first time. Every time you read "there is/exists a possible world such that X, Y, or Z", mentally substitute "it ...
Yeah it occurred to me that engaging with MU on matters involving AP/philosophy of language/modal logic/etc might not be the brightest idea I've ever ...
I think you're missing the point/meaning of possible-world semantics, MU. Aside from people like Lewis (who is a realist wrt possible worlds), "existi...
Oh absolutely. And its technical density is actually quite elegant. And the views it espouses are also super interesting, and significant for the hist...
Don't get me wrong, I definitely respect the hell out of Kant, and recognize his influence/significance in the history of philosophy (and cosmology/as...
The Tractatus is about as obscure and technically dense as you'll find, but the PI (and to a lesser extent On Certainty and Culture and Value and so o...
And such a good writer! A lot of philosophy is downright miserable to read- have you ever tried to read Kan't CPR, for instance? As in, reading it cov...
I've never found an adequate way to describe it, but a lot of Nietzsche's work seems to me to amount to some form of philosophical experimentation: he...
:up: (This is one of the questions that keeps Nietzsche scholars arguing in circles, i.e. whether these tensions and contradictions are deliberate or ...
Nietzsche's critique of Christianity (specifically The Antichrist) amounts to the charges that Christianity is both false and pernicious. Specifically...
Np. I'd recommend taking a look at the links, if you're interested in psychology/the history of psychology (and/or checking out the Kaufmann book, or ...
To be clear, I was calling Freud a Nietszche "fan" in a sort of tongue-in-cheek/non-literal way: what I meant is that Niezsche had a notably significa...
How much time do you have? This could take all day. How about some notable examples: Nietzsche's views on realism wrt truth-value and value judgments/...
I've also always really enjoyed Walter Kaufmann's Critique of Religion and Philosophy- its also fairly broad and encyclopedic, and while Kaufmann's wr...
I'll stan for Bertrand Russell's Problems of Philosophy; its sort of an introductory-level summary of the problems 20th century analytic philosophy/ph...
:up: Yeah that is interesting. I suppose he can plausibly say that CCC should be preferred to inflationary models since inflationary models have never...
Yeah I find CCC fascinating (and Penrose is just a treasure). I don't have the math/physics background to evaluate Penrose's claim of positive corrobo...
I remember he was on PBS Space Time's ToE livestream (one of them at any rate) along with Sabine Hossenfelder (who is also awesome). Really enjoyed th...
Oh trust me, I know the feeling all too well (being an atheist myself)- the intellectual legacy of the "New Atheists" is... a mixed bag, to put it mil...
Yeah no one ever said that Nietzsche lacked literary skill, for all his many faults. The guy could write. But its also interesting (and instructive, i...
Um, right. That was my point all along. And also that, in at least some instances, people seem to be insisting on the lack-theism definition of atheis...
Proof of any claims they make. Atheists can, and very often do, engage in debates or arguments, and so end up making claims. Claims for which they bea...
No, our ability to reliably roll the cosmic clock backwards stops before we get to the "Big Bang singularity": our models hold up well until about 10^...
This isn't accurate; the part of the Big Bang model that is empirically corroborated and widely accepted posits an expanding and cooling universe from...
Burden of proof is a social convention governing debates/arguments, so yes, in a sense, they are. But if you don't care whether people listen or engag...
As I've said a number of times, I think talking about the existence of concepts in minds is an untenable reification. So I'm humoring other commenters...
I don't see how that follows- in fact the Big Bang model offers a good contrast here, because unlike theism, the Big Bang model is actually explanator...
Is that what we mean when we say Santa Claus exists? That the concept of Santa Claus exists? If that is what we mean, why don't we just say that inste...
Right; that was precisely my point- there is no such thing as THE "formal" or technical definition of existence in philosophy (so this isn't a failure...
:up: It often seems to me that some atheists use the lack-theism definition as a way of getting out of having to meet their burden of proof and/or epi...
Its not even a question of whether one accepts that God exists or not; even supposing we do accept that God exists, if only purely for the sake of arg...
I'm not sure "arbitrary" is the right word- what I said was that the same question you raised with regard to naturalistic morality applies to theistic...
I wasn't asking for an explanation of the difference between technical and colloquial usage in general, I was asking what exactly you think is THE for...
I also found it laughable, your hectoring people about not being acquainted with the relevant data when you clearly are guilty of same; I'm glad you a...
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