Indeed. Our ability to imagine and hypothesise demands causal explanation of observable phenomena. The gradual acceptation and formal transmission of ...
We forget that we are just the latest iteration in an unbroken chain of life that began evolving 4.5 billion years ago. The idea that we can reinvent ...
You might as well ask why lions do not give up meat. Common ideals are not independent from us, they are us. The idea that we can tear up a culture an...
I imagine so, but quite how it would be I have no idea. Maybe it doesn't. Not every mutation confers an advantage. However, I suspect it does and I su...
On the first point, reflexively, you should be able to answer your own question. On the second, I was unaware that I had opined on birds' self-conscio...
I am unsure that consciousness can be anything but self-consciousness. Awareness of one's existence is an internal mental state so you have to take th...
Positing phenomenal consciousness (or unself-conscious consciousness) in all matter does not explain anything. Matter is a necessary condition of cons...
I'd take issue with your use of 'never'. Sure, we don't understand it at the moment, but never predict it? Unless 'proto-consciousness' is 'full blown...
Emergentism claims that consciousness is more than the sum of its parts. Or put another way, that the parts are a necessary, but not sufficient condit...
If that were the case and consciousness were a property of matter rather than a large, functioning nervous system, then consciousness would persist po...
The problem of other minds highlights the difficulty in being sure that other members of our own species are conscious. Panpsychism helps out of this ...
Up to a point, yes. However, by its nature, secular morality allows for challenge. Morality derived from the divine does not and this, I would argue, ...
OK. It doesn't really make any difference though. Certainty is still the quality lacking in secular morals. Indeed, maybe faith doesn't cause certaint...
I consider myself to be on the left, although I don't hold with the left's current obsession with LGTBQ+, feminism, and race (all once worthy causes b...
The great thing about morals derived from God or whoever is you can be certain they're right as long as you accept their supernatural source. This cer...
Taking a step a back from the particular case of the BBC, I don't really see how any public broadcaster could ever avoid the accusation of political b...
Because philosophers are less prone to radical chic and moral exhibitionism. The cultural relativism at the heart of post-modernism gives rise to an i...
You appear to be using the term 'right' in a non-technical sense. Given the nature of this forum, your question requires acknowledgement of the philos...
A right, in social contract theory, has a corresponding responsibility. It is not immediately clear what responsibility obtains from the supposed 'rig...
Possibly, but you said this: You might argue with Marx's proposed solution to the woes of capitalism. You can certainly argue with practical communism...
Capitalism needs the poor more than it needs capital. The exploitation of an underclass kept in a state of necessity by semi to permanent unemployment...
Ownership is a legal concept that relies on the shared idea of property. Belonging is polysemic and therefore not useful in terms of law but still att...
Is this actually the case? As I understand it, competitive bodybuilding is massively unhealthy. If, on the other hand, you mean something else by 'bod...
I would be very careful where you go with this. As has already been alluded to; drawing conclusions of superiority based on inverse proportion to pris...
I'll pass on a definition of athleticism since I think you probably have a pretty good idea of what I mean already. However, for me at least, the beau...
As a once competitive sportsman, there is something very odd about bodybuilding since it appears to do away with any athleticism. To be honest, I ques...
I see, so you'd like for me to have prefaced it with a qualifying expression? No problem: I believe that belief is what you choose to hold to be true ...
Why don't you try to state what's wrong with my definition (the full one, not your cherry-picked version) without an appeal to definition (especially ...
Nothing. I included it in order to show that this is not just another 'Day of Whatever', but a day on which there are significant strikes and demonstr...
If you dedicate a day to telling half the population that they're being exploited and abused by the other half and thus should strike in order to "sto...
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