Artemis

How so?

Yes, we behave inefficiently very frequently. BUT we have reasons for those behaviors. They may not be very good reasons, but they are reasons and thu...

That internet mods are increasingly ruthless tyrants or that TPF has a pretty decent mod team? :wink: Discord is the worst offender, afaik. More and m...

I just want to add another way large swaths of the internet are destroying democracy: servers with authoritarian mods who suppress even benign opinion...

Well, since you've taken morality out of it and you're admitting it's pretty much all subjective... what's the point of this thread? (I'm not trying t...

I'm still struggling with what you really mean by "worth." I assume you simply mean "has value" and that's subjective. Just like interesting is subjec...

Seems like some begging the question is going on here unless you clarify or rephrase what it means to be "worth" engaging with. As is, worth implies m...

I was not merely referring to your posts alone. When I talk about the thread, I'm referring to its entirety.

There's a third option: first mover agnosticism. Nothing in this thread has yet convinced me to be for or against the idea of a first mover... or rath...

Sure: You said: So, events at the quantum level work in ways that we really don't understand or know how to explain, and the "solution" is to throw ou...

Doesn't your second paragraph refute your first one here?

Good! That opens things up a bit. If you're generally looking to get a degree, I would strongly recommend double majoring. My favorite philosophy prof...

I thought you said you read it? :rofl:

Usually because people think it shuts down the argument. "If you disagree NOW, you're eViL"

Relax, it was just a book recommendation.

See Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason"

So, I had a long hiatus from the forum and didn't see much of what was going on here. Was there ever any progress in the idea of bringing in professio...

Well, that's par for the course :wink: But I do in fact think and agree that the conversations on the ENTIRE forum would go better if people clarified...

That's actually valid. Academics do it all the time.

Are you looking to enter an undergraduate or graduate program?

But, I will extend this olive branch: I know my tone here isn't going to be appreciated by anyone who doesn't agree with me and share my experiences i...

But neither did you. That's the hilarious part of this. You started this whole thing telling me I can't possibly understand or know until I go and hun...

And I'll add, yes, I'm being lazy and don't really WANT to rehash what has been hashed out ad nauseam on this forum already... BUT at least I'm not cl...

I said this thread and others through the eyes of the other side, actually. But, hey, your whole "you need arguments" spiel is coming on the heels of ...

Someone in the past, as I've mentioned and just for example, told me they'd eat disabled people. So yeah, it's tedious. Didn't you JUST say you don't ...

Nah, I already explained why I'm not interested. But I do cordially invite you to read this thread and previous threads not through your own eyes, but...

So could you.

It just seems to me that we could come up with all manner of rules and principles that are perhaps internally intelligible, but don't apply to the rea...

Maybe... but I lose interest even attempting the debate when I think my interlocutors aren't actually open to seeing the other side. If you look throu...

I dunno... my personal experience ( :wink: ) is that people's psychologies get in the way of this debate. I mean, something they do every day, somethi...

Sometimes I wonder if the occasional omni reads these animal rights threads and.... though s/he is perhaps not yet convinced about animal rights... re...

You can break the laws of nature? Really? Where? How? Let me see! What you're talking about is humans understanding and using the laws of nature. And ...

Okie dokie.

This doesn't in any way, shape, or form address what I said.

This is nonsensical. Deer don't hunt. If you became a deer, you would eat leaves and leave all the other deer alone.

Well, have fun with your strawpersons anyway.

No thank you. Same way I don't need to become a serial killer or rapist in order to see through those things.

The idea that things like respect or grace could possibly matter when killing someone seems pretty far-fetched to me.

I think I should be clear: this is how we deal with it in basic logic. There's a time and a place to get more into the details of the umbrella terms t...

Yes. But that leads us to what Banno and I were addressing earlier: where something veers into science versus philosophy versus literal and figurative...

The sticky part #1 is that humans ARE natural beings as well. Just as much as a bird. So how does a building or a computer differ from a nest? They're...

I had a bunch written up, but then I realized, we're more or less quibbling over semantics. You said before that a claim about a non-existent thing is...

Quote: "Today, major subfields of academic philosophy include metaphysics, which is concerned with the fundamental nature of existence and reality, ep...

Meh, life is too short to deal with rude people. Have a nice life!

Okay, good. That's what I thought, but then your emoji threw me off and I figured I'd better make sure we're actually on the same page :wink:

I don't think we need to overthink it or leave it opaque: "Philosophy (from Greek: ?????????, philosophia, 'love of wisdom') is the study of general a...

Which shouldn't be surprising, considering science originated in philosophy and was generally accepted as part of philosophy until rather recently in ...

Sounds precisely like philosophy.

Just in case there is any confusion: "Truth claim" is not the same as "true claim." It is a "claim to truth," in other words, "I claim X to be true." ...

If anything, hypothesizing and theorizing are THE moments in which scientists attempt to do philosophy.