Philosophy and science aren't competitors. In philosophy we find avenues which in the end bear no fruit, but in science we do as well. We find article...
No offense, but I am a sociel scientist as well as a lawyer and I publsh on a regular basis in academic journals (although less than I wish because of...
Before I became a lawyer I was a layman at law. An interested person. So, have I forgotten the questions that intereste me then, but which I could not...
On a less ascerbic note, I gebuinely wonder what you mean to illustrate with showing Gershowitz first one and a half minutes. I thought he was clear a...
And being paid to do painting means bought painting .... wut? No, you get paid for something because you have a certain skill or trait that people pay...
A lot depends on how, where and when. When you are saying it to a loved one or to someone in an intimate moment, it different from when you say it to ...
Que? I have read what you wrote. And I explained that what you wrote was a called a no true scotssman fallacy. And yes, there absolutely is Christiani...
What you perform here is a 'no true scotsman' falacy. You state that a democracy is defined as rule by reason and when I object you tell me it is no l...
The problem is that democracy is not necessarily rule by reason. Democracy is rule by popular will but this will might not be reasonable. You also see...
I agree, but I read Nietzsche also as calling forth an active spirit. We need to submit, but also to command in the sense of setting values, proclaimi...
No not really, most analytic philosophers I met were perfectly nice people. I just find the question "what does it even mean" a bit chidish, probably ...
I don't think it is a scathing remark against Bohr actually. He rather applauds Bohr for being daring, scandalous and ... revolutionary. What he seems...
"What does that even mean?" whenever I read this line I imagine a baby analytic philosopher hitting his little fist against his chair demanding meanin...
Ok but it is totally unclear how or why. I have no idea why complimentarity says something about the death of science. I can conjecture a Marxist 'dea...
I will also check that. Leon Rosenfeld was a Marxist... which leas me to believe economy would not be that far away ;) But I will read what I can find...
Yes but I am unsure what theiir metaphysical argument might be. If one points to the essence of a certain something, here science, but conveniently di...
I wonder about that because I think it would be very hard to say what the essence of science is. There are also different styles of doing science, see...
Yes we do. We long for the earth and give rights to trees. And the symbols and number are countered by other symbols and numbers. Cost benefit analyse...
Maybe I can write a story, the first part of it adapted from Orhan Pamuk, a famous Turkish writter, but I do not remember which book. Anyway, in the o...
Yes and your whole argument is misguided and I am trying to show you. It is inferior (all things being equal) because it allows police intervention on...
It is also a violation of privacy but some violations of privacy are to be tolerated in the interest of law enforcement. We find the bodily integrity ...
It does, As 180 pointed out, consumers keep demand running for the production of it. Therefore, in order to decrease demand it is criminalized. You co...
The reason adultery is decriminlized has to do with the retreat of moralim as a basis for criminal sanctions and with the fact that adultery is a priv...
The argument is fallacious on similar grounds as the ontological argument for God is. In fact it is Parmenides all over again. You define something in...
To me love is a metaphysical condition and as such real. The world is always an object of care for us. what I mean is that we are never unaffected by ...
Well there is the right to bodily integrity. In principle you have a right to do as you please with your body and you certainly have a right to make o...
Interesting article, read it with great pleasure and it is convincing. The only thing I wonder about is why Biden was so confident when it is sure tha...
I do not remember the exact nature of our talk anymore :) Maybe I was right on that one. I have been wrong about a host of other things. History is ea...
No, unfortunately not. I did not realise it was on and was on holiday these past two weeks. I gladly read all the submissions though. I remember some ...
What? Mister Benkei, you ask us to not only read your story, but even provide you with feedback so you can become better, all free of charge? What are...
That is to me simply a product of the historical circumstances of both Kelsen and Hart. Kelsen's view is simply more etatist coming from the continent...
I do not really understand the discussion and there is a lot to go through, but why would international law somehow not be law just because there is a...
I generaly agree with this, tautology or not. I think meaning is not created solitary but meaning is created in exchange with others. That exchange is...
Well, I reckon psychopathic behaviour can on an individual level bring a lot of success. Civil society is a bit of a collective action problem after a...
Is it not just as valid or invalid to say: "You don't love a person because you love his mind; you only start to love his mind after you start to love...
That is a nice compliment 180, thank! Indeed those discussions formed me too quite a bit. Under that influence and under the influence of people I met...
Why would 'force' exist independently? to me it seems you are rethinking Kant in a way. Read his trnascendental deduction. What you call 'force' he ca...
Nahh now you are being too modest again. :) That was not the intention of my remark. I think you like the exploration and so do I. Let's try. Do you k...
Fine, apologies accepted, hatchett buried :) But would you care to explain what you mean? I would not mind to elaborate, but I wrote quite a lengthy p...
Ohh I think it is fine. And anyway, I should be able to look through that. What intrigues me is what you hold to be that will that "initates and gives...
Well I either go or not go. Where does my will come in? You seem to hold to the following image: I want to go, than by conscious movement I set my bod...
I doubt that for two reasons, at least when you mean with will the everyday conception of free will. First, human will might be directed at a certain ...
The question of how to deal with luck and necessity are rather crucial in Western philosophy. Necessity is represented by Ananke, the goddess of fate ...
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