Cheers for the recommendations. Got a good amount to keep me busy. Also in case anyone is interested found out the Sydney School of Continental Philos...
I'm quite interested in how arguments work on us, how we get convinced of various issues. How we come to hold one philosophical/political/moral/(inser...
Haha I'm quite comfortable with saying you are completely wrong about this. Not sure where u pulled it from. As if anyone on a philosophy forum is unc...
I really enjoyed that post, though it's not entirely accurate. I am very attracted to the idea of polytheism atleast in the way that Dreyfus interpret...
Something like this. I think morality as commitment is also a bit of an abstraction. I don't think the morality as part of your experience is a set of...
I haven't respondent to these aspects of your post because they don't really make sense to me. I see it a way you can choose to view others, definitel...
The reason that I don't see it as the classic is/ought problem is to do with the conception of what morality is. If morality is part of your experienc...
I was addressing this sentence. "If your point of view is as real and as significant as my point of view, for all that I have no access to yours, then...
Yeh if we look at people who have suffered brain damage, it seems clear that the structure of consciousness itself has changed rather than just the co...
It looks like we have a vastly different view of some of these issues. What ever generic is found about human subjectivity is based on similarity not ...
I honestly do not know if you are responding to something I have said or making an argument against realism. Happy to hear about truths about personal...
No, but do you think that moral facts are exactly the same as other facts with the only difference being their subject matter? Normally you could chec...
Sorry, did an edit to try to make my point more clear. I get that anti-realism isn't the norm, but so what? I don't go along with every position that ...
So let's say you have a specific belief - maybe torturing children is wrong - then you find out that it isn't true although you still feel that tortur...
Yeh that's part of my issue. I'm unwilling to take on the metaphysical commitments that I think are necessary to say that 'X is wrong'. Repulsive is a...
To me the whole question is a non issue. I don't hold that there is something about the world that makes killing children wrong. Do you hold that sayi...
Of course I don't think it is wrong to torture children, if I did I wouldn't have made this thread. I would view moral realism in what you call the re...
What exactly is your argument here. Looks like mixing a whole bunch of stuff together. On the one hand your speaking about the justification of moral ...
1) "It's wrong to torture children." This is a moral claim, and it's also true. So there are true moral claims. Yeh if someone was torturing a child I...
Weird thread. When you say 'statically xxx' you are saying that some situations/events/etc are more likely than others. Also it's a description not a ...
Almost every time a philosopher struck me as overrated, my opinion changed when I gained more background information or re-read them. Probably the mos...
You don't actually present any arguments not to drink. To say X is one method to achieve Y yet there are other methods to achieve Y, isn't actually an...
Another quote regarding Nietzsche science and truth. The essay 'On Truth and Lies in a Non Moral Sense' is only about 10 pages and really worth readin...
Actually I can often get on board with people on the left. Do you have any recommendations of someone similar on the right. It would be really interes...
Do you have any recommendations of things to read to get a balanced idea of the other side (the right)? Also, curiously what changed your view on abor...
I don't think this is particularly accurate. At least in my case it's more about allowing the other side to have a voice and bothering to listen to wh...
I also think this is a large part of my thinking 'what the hell is going on?'. I had a female friend post a comment saying the election was entirely a...
Nice, my last 4 years has been: work and read philosophy during semester, cram electrical eng during exams. Even now I want to join the reading group ...
I wander what's actually at stake here, suppose we confirm that they have an extensive language, does that impact any of your philosophical (or non-ph...
Yeh, one of the reasons that I was thinking specifically about condemnation is that people are often not trying to convince anyone of anything at all....
It's related to Kants transcendental deduction. Kant's view is that there are certain processes that need to happen in order to get knowledge of objec...
Yeh it's one of those things that can make reading Kant in English misleading. Alison makes the point that there are 2 seperate German words for objec...
Nice! Have you read Husserl before? I think he's probably my least favourite writer. He expresses simple things in convoluted ways. I grabbed Logical ...
Elucidations, Interviews with various philosophers who give an overview of a problem. Really good for this format, pity that it's all analytic philoso...
I read most of the introduction over the weekend but stopped. The introduction requires a decent amount of prior knowledge of Husserl, both his overal...
By this do you just mean some kind of post-Kantian position in which the world is inseparable from us? Holding that cannot refute skepticism, you coul...
I wander about this - it's been a while since I've read Putnam so I might try to read an SEP article on it later. Why would realism entail that I alwa...
By that sentence do you mean that we accept semantic externalism? I don't think the argument can rule out a skeptical hypothesis, just rule out specif...
I've seen a whole bunch of attempts to prove that we are not brains in vats. Putnam attempts to prove that we can never say that we are brains in vats...
I had a re-read of the post, the tone can be taken as more or less aggressive - it looks like I took it as more aggressive than you meant it. Plenty o...
Yah I was actually hesitant about keeping the money because of that. I did spend an hour helping for an experiment, only to give them bogus data for a...
Yeh I don't trust them at all. The last study I participated in, they put on head gear to measure some kind of brain activity and had me performing so...
Well it's not right now. Yesterday I participated in a psychological study that one of my friends was running. They were investigating altruism vs sel...
I probably wont be able to participate much as I have my honors thesis due in 2 months but I'll keep track of what's going on. If people decide on Der...
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