Social constructionists might want to challenge the test as anachronistic if the birth in question occurred before the 1980s when testable DNA had yet...
Heidegger's obscurity makes him more of a guru than a philosopher, which might be sufficient reason for students or teachers of philosophy to skip som...
I get how the assumption of powers beneath consciousness and beyond logic can have such a deplorable influence on people's respect for argument and th...
If uncritical acceptance of his doctrines qualifies a reader of Foucault, then I'm happy to decline. But I was never applying to be "a reader of Fouca...
It is neither equivocation nor misreading to infer that he is, in effect, replacing argument with discourse. He does so by introducing alleged powers ...
Does my use of the word "replace" matter a lot? Foucault's prose is notoriously dense, so let me quote what is written on the subject in Stanford Ency...
Foucault replaced argument with discourse, recall, so, you don't get to argue at all. Instead there is discourse, and whatever rhetoric you can muster...
What you guys want seems unreasonable. Foucault, for instance, replaced the very idea of argument with discourse, and truth with power (Archaeology of...
According to Chomsky it was around the 1970s when a group of Parisian intellectuals and maoists (e.g. Julia Kristeva & Co.) could no longer deny the a...
Not when the claim is supported by good reasons. But to say that no reason is better than another would be dogmatic, because without the possibility t...
Postmodern "thought" is among the most pernicious anti-intellectual movements in modern times. In philosophy it matters little (most of it is sophistr...
By distinguishing one's personal experience as a fact from one's personal belief about its meaning or interpretation. For example, I taste a sip of co...
What exactly could be in doubt when you're having a personal experience? In order to be fallible and something to doubt the experience would have to r...
No, in PayPal one is asked to choose the currency, and at the forum's subscription page it says $, hence I assumed that this is managed in the USA, or...
I assume that the site is managed in the USA, so I sent some US $ (via PayPal). Another thing which can help keep the site going is a secure connectio...
What sometimes gets under my skin is not a particular philosophical question, but the misuse of philosophical questions. For example, when the problem...
A pigeon or human who is deprived from knowledge of how the food is delivered can only speculate, or test whether the delivery of food might have some...
Like radical relativism, superstition provides us with an implied promise that nothing here on earth is absolute, e.g. we don't have to accept mortali...
Who would appoint your "democratic" military if not the citizens or their representatives, i.e. the federal government? Moreover, without a shared com...
That's because they are not proofs. A proof is sufficient evidence, or sufficient argument, for the truth of a proposition. But the "proofs" you refer...
:-} The military is also used for attack, conquest, or invasion, recall, which has little to do with protection. The US-led invasion of Iraq, for inst...
There are many more creator-candidates beside god, such as in various pagan myths (nordic, aztec etc.), or the flying spaghetti monster, or some natur...
I agree. It is as if consciousness would have to remain beyond explanation and current scientific principles, no matter what. No reconception, clarifi...
Therapeutic is not so passive. To do philosophy is a form of training, like physical training in sports. It can make you more fit and qualified to cha...
Qualities are universal, including qualities we may love. But love is an experience, not a quality, an experience doesn't express anything, rather it ...
It became relatively easy to find others to validate shared views already in the 19th century, when a lot of people moved into the cities. Now, would ...
Nobody says there would be a universal cat. The cat is whatever it is that we interact with and thereby refer to as 'cat', a 'feline animal' etc. (the...
No, because in ordinary speech a word such as 'cat' truly means the feline animal, regardless of your power. If some mad military who happens to hate ...
Truly? :-} In a world where nobody believes in shared truths only the powerful reign, and the wise with uncomfortable truths are easily dismissed as h...
Those people are not describing anything, they're prescribing or pushing their own arbitrary meanings, typically whenever it suits them. For example, ...
What's this talk about inevitable misunderstandings? Both author and interpreter are obliged to comply to the rules and vocabulary of the language tha...
A government should focus on fulfilling its function, of course, which is to determine and enforce state policy. Obviously it should have as much powe...
You can do both: get sufficiently educated for a job you don't hate, and which leaves you with enough time and energy to pursue your own projects on t...
What does it mean to say that an image is different from what it is made up of, and that experience and perception are bound up in what an image is ma...
Prior to seeing something you don't know whether something is present and subject for interpretation. You don't get to sneak in knowledge of its prese...
Look, Sherlock, an individual molecule is insufficient for reflecting or emitting light, it lacks electrical charge etc. We'd need a powerful microsco...
That makes no sense at all. How could the projection of an oval that you see be just an alternative way for how it could be seen? Could you see an ova...
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