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Because science is a social practice. It requires social institutions, social sanctions, social approval, and funding, to happen. If nobody wants scie...

Sure they do.

So the feeling entails an action or non-action about your life in the future. It matters in what you do next or don't do. It involves considerations o...

We disagree. The explanation only matters to the extent that it provides useful predictions. It's a backformed validation. It's easy to show that. If ...

This doesn't follow at all. Those observations are the observations. They are empirical. They don't accord with our everyday experience, but why shoul...

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Lots of difference sources from Heidegger to Marcuse to Connolly to Foucault to Popper to Kuhn to Marx to Polanyi to Kitcher to Fleck to Solomon to Go...

The "problems" are good things, not bad things, for science. But in any case, whether particles popped into existence or didn't isn't a philosophical ...

Thoughtful response.

Sure it does. That's the difference between the ontic and the ontological.

Science doesn't have to differentiate itself from philosophy since its starting point has already done so. Methodological naturalism does not ask meta...

Just a little background on these rightwing welfare queens and how they leech off taxpayers http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-armed-oregon-ranch...

Calling the recognition that black protesters are treated more harshly than white protesters (to the point of being shot) "race baiting" is just the k...

I think you're stymied. Now, what does the feeling that your life is worth living entail? Describe it without examination of said life.

You have shifted categories. One involve evaluating your life. The other evaluating somebody else's. The latter is not at issue in this topic and is n...

The distinction here is ontic versus ontological. I thought I made it clear I was talking about the ontological/existential case. Of course anybody ca...

Yep. I was actually involved in some of the litigation with the BLM for leasing public land to ranchers purposely below fair market value (by manipula...

Sure ISIS does, but nobody in the US takes them seriously (except some disturbed individuals). In contrast, conservatives defend the goons in the Bund...

Aristotle. Now I know why Rand was so screwed up.

The Kool Aid has been drunk deeply.

I really think skin color in this case is merely an index for an ideology of privilege and anti-democratic agitprop. Conservatives, even on this forum...

And what does caring about life entail? Come on, you can say it.

Again, as others have pointed out, if Muslim extremists or the Black Panthers took over an isolated area, the GOP would be demanding air strikes. So y...

I love it when conservatives can't remember what they just posted. The land is public. Always has been. Your idiotic claim that the welfare ranchers h...

The Bundy types do want to start a theocracy, and more to the point, they want to claim my public lands and not pay for it, so they are trying to take...

Are you seriously claiming that before you cared about your life and where it was going, you had a general feeling that you cared about your life and ...

But it is true. If you don't examine your life (and that's the only life that matters when it comes to living it), then it isn't worth living for you,...

I am deadly serious. People like Bundy are attacking our democracy. ISIS just attacks buildings and people. The former is a real threat. The latter ju...

Typical of gun nuts, now you're just making stuff up.

Worse than that, you and John have insisted that some other people (I take it dumb regular people unlike you) don't examine their lives, but just have...

No, I brought up the examined life, not the vapid notion that we can have "feelings" about our life without examining it. Seems blatantly false to me....

Yes I interpret philosophy broadly. Even baristas can engage in it. Indeed, philosophy is our most natural condition - we have to prevent people from ...

I think you'd lose that bet. Every GOP politician and absurd conservative pundit (i.e., all of them), along with Fox News would be calling for a death...

One of my favorite MST3K episodes. But Torgo had a heart of gold, when he wasn't trying to get the "Master's" brides.

Not even sure what you're asking or what it entails. I do care about my life, which means I've examined it and my future or past or present are issues...

How do you have an opinion about something you haven't examined even if the examination is as cursory as claiming you just have an opinion about it? T...

You didn't say "generally." You said, about your life. So how do you tell the difference and what does it entail, if it's about your life? I can't ima...

You got that right.

I truly hope Obama does the right thing and sends a large force of armed marshals to the site to tell the welfare ranchers to surrender for arrest or ...

Just to give a little context about these leeches and their welfare lifestyle, BLM leases were so egregiously a waste of taxpayer money and a subsidy ...

This rather misses the point. If some Muslim activists or Black Lives Matters took over an empty federal office with guns, want to make a bet they wou...

You're not aware that BLM leases to ranchers on public lands are at below market value and represent a taxpayer subsidy to the "ranching lifestyle", o...

If you can "feel life is worth living" without examining your life, then you should be able to feel that it isn't worth living without examining your ...

This is the true meaning of the 2nd Amendment - liberating a bird sanctuary from Big Gummit so that welfare ranchers can commit arson. You have to lov...

This all sounds like the examined life to me, simply characterized after the fact as not examined.

Then you've examined your life, however cursorily. Your feelings are about your life, are they not? And you've examined them to determine that they te...

I don't know how you haven't just made my point. If you don't want to examine your life, that's your business and I'm not trying to convince you to do...

You have to make a distinction between what is falsifiable in practice versus in principle. The obvious example is the multiverse interpretation of Ev...

I'm not sure what this could possibly mean except the category error I stated. QM is science. It isn't philosophy. How could philosophy possibly sort ...

I don't understand the distinction you're making, RN. Existential questions aren't subjective per se; rather analysis of an issue as "subjective" is o...