John Doe

Haha, Wallows, I think you're on a bit of a reading group kick! Maybe you're in one of those halcyon philosophical zones where for three months you're...

If you really want to understand what Kant is on about in the CPR the best way to study the work, in my experience, is to put the audiobook version on...

Ahh, I thought you meant that 'CPL' was one possible way of reading him, not that it was your primary way of looking at the work. In any case, I don't...

Whoa, that looks at first glance like an aggressively Kantian reading of Wittgenstein. You seem to be (as many do) simply replacing (1) transcendental...

Isn't one of the chief aims of the PI to get this point across to people like Terrapin? It seems a little weird - with respect to the aims of the PI -...

My general feeling is that, for whatever reason, a lot of religious folks are being woke to philosophical thoughts and feelings then find this website...

Haha, I disagree! Maybe we should read The Ignorant Schoolmaster. :wink:

Okay, well we're happy to exploit your labour power any time just let us know.

My plan is to get this going some time around the start of the new semester, so early January. Hopefully that will give you enough time? Between now a...

I can promise you that we won't read anything that you don't have full free and legal access to in PDF format.

Alright, looks like we should definitely do Riemann! I would definitely also be interested in reading The Structure of Behaviour because it's been an ...

I guess I'll wait and see where people's interests lie. But if we want to do a selection of shorter works like "On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bas...

I think that's a really great suggestion. If there's enough interest, we might consider covering a variety of essays which different people have been ...

I'm open to any and all suggestions. My goal is just to do something interesting. For example, if someone wanted to take on "Time" or "Infinity", I wo...

Trying to define the myth of the given in earshot of any semi-qualified philosophy grad student or professor is usually occasion for a frustrating, lo...

I definitely agree, so long as we understand psychology in the deep sense of the term - the sense of the term that led Witty to love Schopenhauer and ...

Well I look forward to reading! Make sure to cc my username if/when you get around to it.

Yeah - the problem with this is if we ask "How?" you're going to formulate the justification for this proposition in terms of precisely the sort of re...

Well, parroting what I just wrote in another thread. "Best arguments against my identifying as a man born in a woman's body?" I don't know, buddy. Tha...

Yeah, but I think the opposite is true here too. The strange thing about the general prohibition against suicide is that to seriously entertain suicid...

I agree. There's no need for us to become judgemental Kants.

Yeah but are you a real skeptic? I'm skeptical.

I have to admit that I'm having trouble interpreting the point of the idea you're trying to express here. I was only trying to offer you the mildest p...

Glad you like it -- I guess the UN figured out it's a human right to control f through a ton of philosophy texts. Metaphysicians can't lead reading gr...

Just look up Marie McGinn on library.memoryoftheworld.org

If you're looking for something simple and straight-forward why not just go with the relevant Routledge Guidebook?

Glad to hear the Tractatus suggestions worked out! I'm sorry I didn't participate in that group more. As far as the PI is concerned, honestly, I don't...

I feel the same way but for whatever reason the book, which is taken very seriously by epistemologists, seems to be totally ignored by mainstream phil...

sigh One certainly wonders whether it's necessary to move to Europe when Europe has had such an historical proclivity to move to us. :razz:

I suppose that I probably had two distinct metrics in mind when I used the word "success": (1) Students that manage to learn, have fun, grow, etc. whi...

When you feel ready, you should definitely seek out Janette Dinishak and/or Daniel Guevara. Philosophy is like a lot of industries, I think, where bei...

Alright, Tim, I'm no SJW or PC-Police and yet this still reads to me as a quintessential expression of the sort of profoundly dehumanizing racism one ...

Come on now, this is pretty strawman. If not against my quick post then at least against the notion of philosophy as therapy. I have read you say many...

Yeah, sorry, I'm a little loathe to get into the middle of an extended debate on this forum between two members, especially when it seemingly supports...

Uh...are you actually suggesting that therapeutic philosophy is such a bad idea that its practitioners are dolts that don't deserve tenure? What do yo...

What's unsatisfactory about it? Echoing Wittgenstein here, I suspect you might best confront your issues in working through the question "What more do...

I think the idea you're gesturing towards is pretty close to the view of God being explored in the most prominent and interesting work being done toda...

:razz: I'm just alluding to the influence Rand has had on certain people who have run the Fed. Just look what happened when the last Rand-inspired Fed...

I appreciate your passion. It's a great thing to be passionate about. I just hope you find a way to be passionate without dismissing what I take to be...

Not exactly. You're saying things like -- "You would have to work hard to survive even if you did not have children you are just passing on a burden."...

Since we've hit the point where you (a) simply refuse to recognize the potential joy and value of life, and (b) reject my initial invitation to have y...

Well there's a big literature on this stuff that I don't know terribly well, but in my idiosyncratic use I'd want to say 'scientific image' is how som...

Hmm. Something like this? 1. We've carved up the world conceptually. Word-concepts apply to a variety of things. 2. We encounter something new through...

No, society functions at its best to enable people to have the means to engage in healthy loving relationships, joy, and the simple pleasures of life....

I am honestly a little disheartened that you took one sentence to attack from what was not an argument but instead a thoughtful explanation of my conc...

Sincere question: What do you make of the flustered this is so effing stupid response? A few years back I had a professor who was one of the leading v...

That's great! If I had a nephew who was an undergraduate and he came to me and said that he wanted to explore philosophy because of Pirsig I would thi...

This is all posturing, there's no way to prove a negative. The critique of Rand isn't this or that position she holds but that she is ignored by most ...

It's a great recommendation! Do you know of anyone good, other than Baker & Hacker, who fit the OP's criteria of writing a commentary that takes on th...

Egg on my face for holding that position you randomly made up. :rofl: Anyway, glad we agree it's "obvious" Rand is not a philosopher in any practical ...