Sure. When we are looking for a scientific explanation of an observation, we try to fit it within established theories, preferring more secure theorie...
I'd like to see that! (But you may want to make a new thread for that. I suspect that few folks are looking at Gregory threads. I only looked because ...
When scientists work out the implications (predictions) of a theory, this is akin to foundationalism in that they are taking the theory's postulates a...
I thought you were talking about the structure of space (whatever you think that means). But if you don't mind, I would like to change my vote from el...
Original and significant female philosophers? Are There Female Philosophers? These past topics should have popped up when you were typing in the title...
Uses of causation are varied and messy. People have proposed theories of causation, but at most they succeed in some special domains, or capture some ...
There are different ways to understand and talk about causation in ordinary language, specialist language and philosophy. Janus leans more on ordinary...
Why? Why not tiny elephants instead? What feeds your intuition? Is it anything to warrant a second thought? I don't think you and I understand "theore...
The linked article is about a "geometrical model of the atomic nucleus for the periodic table and the arrangement of extranuclear electrons." It doesn...
Not if you are moving infinitely fast. If your speed is infinite over any amount of time, then you will have moved an infinite distance. Which is allo...
Frankly, the only reason I responded is that I saw your posts before and you didn't strike me as a fool. So I wonder what's going on. Is this thread s...
Frankly, this is such a dumb non sequitur, I wonder why anyone would bother. You make a sweeping, simplistic statement about a complex issue that has ...
If you only care about that which can be put into words, then of course you have no place for anything else. This is a rather facile conclusion though...
Facts are what prompts and couches our moral responses. In my experience, most people don't care about the alleged gap between the two, because in the...
The character of William in Eco's novel is said to be based on or inspired by William of Occam, "the father of nominalism," so it makes sense that he ...
Can you explain? The way it sounds to me is that every individual always seeks to accommodate everyone else around them to the best of their understan...
Oughts provide motivation for action - for carrying out their imperatives. Either you have moral beliefs and thus have these motivations, or you are a...
In English-language literature a good keyword to search for would be pluralism. I don't know if there is an all-encompassing meta-meta theory of the s...
Getting back to the topic, it's interesting to note that the constructionist, according to Gergen, is an objectivist despite herself, inasmuch as she ...
This is a classic naturalistic fallacy, an instance of is/ought confusion. The natural origin of morality is not the same as the grounding for moral c...
This example is a red herring. The contrast here is between moral and amoral (morally neutral) actions, not between moral simpliciter and objectively/...
I will humor you with an example, if you insist. Someone I know was beaten and robbed in the street. That person suffered a concussion and a broken bo...
I don't want to digress into philosophy of science and falsificationism. I think you made your point clearly as it is. What I don't understand is why ...
Well, of course, if you search far and wide you'll find some luck being involved in some way in anything that ever happened in your life, but when peo...
Is it really? You disclaimed that you are not a social constructionist; I understood your post as an invitation to comment on a specific thesis that y...
Historically, Law nomenclature has been used to refer to important regularities that can be formulated in a single statement or equation. You will fin...
Well, one can be a social constructionist about some specific area of human life, such as morality; it doesn't have to be a slippery slope. Being a co...
Blame is tightly linked to moral judgement, and this is not at all specific to identity politics. For the purposes of making a distinction, we can ide...
To be honest, your post is rife with misconceptions. Right from the start: One can perhaps get such an impression from high school science classes, bu...
A quick Google found me this: Gender Distribution of Degrees in Philosophy: "In 2014, 31% of philosophy degree completers at the bachelors and doctora...
The population that posts on an internet forum is not representative of the global population in a number of ways, including gender. Besides, a dozen ...
I am OK with the idea that time is immanent in the physical world, whether we think of it as fundamental or (as some hypothesize) emergent. But that d...
You are misusing both words. "Ps are Qs" is a definition, it is not a tautology (it isn't true by definition), and it is not circular (it does not rel...
Given your subsequent elaboration, I guess what this horrible mess is trying to get at is a notion of a clock, in its most general sense. In other wor...
Yeah no, it's totally appropriate. Here is cumulative COVID death rate in Sweden and its neighbors: Sweden: 1:942 Finland: 1:8734 Norway: 1:9835 Denma...
The shit-stain is lying through his teeth. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/ https://o...
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