Isaac is here to back him up: That's a lie. And no one was "installed": here Isaac is parroting Putin. Well, not to worry: soon Ukraine will be denazi...
Yeah, Zelensky's administration is so unconcerned about a possible Russian invasion that, after all their resolute posturing, they now seem to be back...
Understanding is always understanding something in terms of something else; reducing one thing to another; fitting the explanandum within an explanato...
Crimea was (or, let's hope, would have been) a very different operation though. There wasn't a large-scale invasion and hardly any military confrontat...
The Buried Giant, surely? (It's on my list.) Books I read recently: Ivan Bunin - Stories and novellas Thomas Mann - Death in Venice and other stories ...
Thanks! For those who don't have the book, which is probably most of us, this article may help: Defending eliminative structuralism and a whole lot mo...
Well, you can't mount a full-scale invasion in secret, so this is neither here nor there. If they were in fact preparing for an invasion, it would loo...
What is the paper? If you want to discuss it, please cite it for the benefit of everyone else, because it is difficult to comment on an out-of-context...
https://pictr.com/images/2019/10/02/5plB6Z.jpg I don't know, I don't think I have a consistent attitude towards wonder and bafflement in general. Ther...
Where "understanding," according to you (I am not sure about Chomsky), means reconciling with our hypothetical innate intuitions. I say "hypothetical"...
It's hard to see what it is that he is pissed about, what he is trying to gain, and why now. I think that Western diplomats aren't being coy when they...
Yes, there is an interesting body of research in psychology and education regarding "folk" or "naive" conceptions of the world and their relation to s...
Russia is in an excellent position now to keep Ukraine out of NATO pretty much indefinitely. Everyone here (everyone else, not you) unthinkingly swall...
It is common nowadays for philosophers to have a second (or indeed first) degree in the discipline in which they specialize. I know of some prominent ...
"Naturalists" and "empiricists," with or without scare quotes, can admire Hume, if it pleases them, but why should they slavishly follow him in everyt...
As I already said earlier, I don't think that Chomsky, in this essay at least, engages with the issues that animate debates between Nagel, Chalmers, M...
Counterpoint in the same magazine: There’s Plenty of Blame to Go Around on Ukraine What Russia is trying to accomplish with this sudden burst of hyste...
That was 2004; a lot has happened since then, like the "Orange Revolution" that happened right after that 2004 vote. 2014 was a watershed year. If the...
They did let people vote in Ukraine. Guess what? Pro-Russia candidates were given the boot. Since that unpleasantness over Crimea and the ongoing war ...
So, if someone wanted to state it more precisely, they might say that the ice thickness changes with the distance from the center. In ordinary speech ...
A day-old infant has very limited cognition skills. So, by your logic, ethical treatment of very young infants should likewise be limited. Reductive e...
percept is usually understood as the product of mind's interpretation of sensory stimuli, the awareness of an object or event, such as grass outside y...
I don't find terms like "qualia" or "experiential" all that clear myself, and I haven't seen where Srawson added anything useful in that regard (but I...
Read Stoljar's precis - that didn't help much... Probably because I am still having difficulties with qualia ("experiential truths") and the zombie ar...
Thanks for the explanation, but to understand how this ties in with the present context, I would need to have a deeper understanding of the topic, and...
I didn't see much of a consistent agenda behind these rambling notes; I think people read into them whatever prejudices they happen to hold already: a...
I've read the rest of the essay, and frankly I am still not sure what to think of it. That is, the impression that I got after reading about a third o...
This: This doesn't just tell us what the subject of ethics is, but states a thesis about what ethics is (emphasis in the original). This thesis may be...
So, you are saying that Keen's points have nothing to do with elementary thermodynamics, and that smug rant at the beginning of the video was just a s...
This reminds me of this classic: Well, credit where credit is due: this "radical economist" is one step ahead of the creationist-who-almost-discovered...
This answer seeks to smuggle a specific position on metaethics into the very definition of the subject matter. This is all too common in discussions s...
I'd heard some of Andy Akiho's percussion music before, so I didn't dismiss this as a gimmick, and boy was this rewarding! Andy Akiho: "Ricochet" (Pin...
Thanks. I don't find any specific passage particularly confusing - I just don't see the big picture yet. So far it looks like preparatory notes for a ...
I am reading this essay (?), and finding it pretty frustrating. Not because it's difficult, but because it reads like unstructured reading notes inter...
I think you are missing Frank's point. Einstein wasn't fiddling with Newtonian mechanics in an attempt to fix a discrepancy in the orbit of Mercury. I...
OK, sorry, I wasn't being fair in putting the blame on you. The questions that you ask are substantive, and the answers are not straightforward, not e...
I don't really understand what you mean with this discussion where the subject concerns factual matters that anyone interested can learn simply by per...
"Random" can mean different things. Rigorously defining randomness can be problematic - see this SEP review for starters: Chance versus Randomness. On...
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