John Doe

Good luck! Feel free to PM me if you don't like the direction we pointed you in or if you need more recommendations.

Sure, I guess. She has one philosophical work that cracks 500 citations and a philosophically-themed novel. I don't want to use it as a criterion. Tha...

Neither of us recommended anything a grad student writing on Wittgenstein hasn't read. The summer school I mentioned is for professional and budding s...

A good guide when discussing someone's intellectual status. I'd be careful defending any political position that fails to adequately account for the v...

I believe what you're looking for is a series of books, the first of which is Wittgenstein : Understanding and Meaning, Volume 1 by PMS Hacker. There ...

Sure, we can respectfully disagree. I'm still not sure how any of this relates to Rand and the entirely empirical matter of how utterly uninteresting ...

You're right, that's certainly a huge issue with current academic philosophy (though it's notable and interesting that you want to move in the directi...

:brow: Even were we to grant this rather dubious claim, is this not true of hundreds if not thousands of Assistant Professors around the world? Not to...

I'm sure there's an interesting question in here about the status of a philosopher, who gets to 'count' as a philosopher and who does this deciding in...

I disagree with Banno. If I've understood csalisbury rightly, then "just stop" as advice is akin to "be less depressed" when one is overtaken by a dee...

I agree, these are all very pressing issues. I just wish society could figure it out where we have some group of people dedicated to questions like "W...

Personally, I refuse to learn from anybody who has not written about nuclear weapons. It did make K-12 a bit tough but I got through it all right.

Glad you like it! I find the Kyoto School incredibly beautiful but remarkably difficult to understand. If you come up with any interesting thoughts th...

You should read up on the Kyoto School. They present the most prolonged and sophisticated attempt to come to grips with the problematic you're gesturi...

I believe that your goals might be best served by this course and related reading material. If you're interested in Kant and Wittgenstein specifically...

These are very sensitive topics which is why it's important -- though difficult! -- to maintain certain standards of discourse. I suspect with empathy...

I've been reading that thread pretty carefully because I'm deeply pro-LGBTQ rights but also concerned that the moral legitimacy of the rights and clai...

At least if you guys had let him/her have a third thread s/he would have had an outlet for his/her manic posting and I would still be able to follow t...

What courses are you thinking of taking? Have you done coursework before in philosophy? It's a really great question! The ancient Greeks only left abo...

I am also interested in how people hold and defend ideas and came here with the expectation that I'd find all those great discussions and thoughts tha...

Maybe because I'm new, but I still feel like I learn a lot from even very low quality posts. The number of people who come in here thinking they've pr...

Thanks, this helps give a lot of context to the old posts explaining what happened. I guess I never understood what happened because I could never wra...

Sorry to come around to this a little late, but was Timothy the Pitt grad student? I know a lot of people at Pitt and I've always wanted to find out w...

I think you have both zeroed in on perhaps the biggest problem and are right to try and bring the issue wider awareness. My guess is that the current ...

Certainly, I did not mean to imply either that this site tolerates more low quality posts or that the folks on the new site are less interesting, soph...

I wonder to what extent you think this reflects changes in the internet itself. Perhaps I have an excessively nostalgic memory of the past, but the ol...

Thanks for the recommendation. I have actually read almost everything published/unpublished he has written and of course all the major works several t...

My feeling is that he does. On my reading at least, it's a mistake to think that he equivocates about truth simply because he lacks a univocal concept...

It's an interesting question in this sense: How do @Streetlight's thoughts about the unity of embracing life-affirmation through the fire of nihilism ...

I think this is right, and very informative, but I'm still trying to make sense of how to understand what constitutes "truth" in this formulation. It ...

These are all phenomenal posts and I have learned a lot from each of you. I think that this is right but that the psychology is reversed -- weakness e...

My suggestion is you just go ahead and start reading those texts on their own and see what you make of them. Allow yourself to grow with the texts. Th...

Makes sense. Why even bother with academic philosophy when reading Being & Time makes you a thousand times more profound than any of the poor souls to...

Okay...so where exactly does this massive inference from to about human relations and sexual practices come from? Well, sure, if you deny women agency...

Nothing would make me happier than to read 1,000 words of this in the form of a dissertation proposal or grad school application. :lol:

Well, that's one of the sources of the beauty of the novel, it's purposefully set-up so that each of us will identify with different characters in dif...

I hope you won't be offended if I offer my retort, in good natured jest, in the form of a small dialogue. Person A: I have observed two apples. I was ...

I suppose the simple answer is this: Dimitri spends the whole book in a state of anxiety about the relationship between his 'lofty' side (inherited fr...

It's even worse than that. People have been making the circumstantial case for a little while that Trump attended the meeting via speakerphone. Giulia...

Run out and buy yourself a copy of The Brothers Karamazov, like, right now. Don't ask why, don't read a bunch of stuff that's going to contextualize i...

:lol: Trump has you deranged, buddy. All I'm doing is demonstrating your own bad judgment by posting a couple times in this thread and living my life,...

I think that the aim is to nurture a particular kind of posturing. Hence ‘trolling’ and ‘owning the libs’. It’s signalling to supporters a certain sor...

I was pretty disgusted when I was told that you partake in cannibalistic orgies with actual family members. Doubly so when it came to light that some ...

Gosh, I never know if it's a good idea to interrupt the conversation and backtrack after I've been too busy to get on here for several days but in thi...

I finally got around to reading Capital Vol. 1 for the first time late last year and was impressed by a lot of misconceptions which I think surround i...

The crime they seem to pursuing in this regard -- in addition to the possibility of various financial crimes, wire-fraud, conspiracy to commit cyber c...

I am pretty surprised that no one has seriously discussed the role of mentorship and friendship yet. My friends have persuaded me on lots of subjects,...

Frankly, say what you will, but I'm glad that we have Republicans in power to protect the Constitution, and the original intention of the Founding Fat...

They are addressing your argument. If you provide no epistemological justification in favor of adopting your form of argument -- in this case, you jum...

As with all guidelines, I'm guessing the rules are a tad malleable if @frank has some of that $100 million dollar super pac money to throw your way, o...