SophistiCat

As pointed out, you probably misunderstood that passage, which comes from the very beginning of the introduction. What you quoted is not a definition ...

Lots of analyses and retrospectives in the press, as one would expect. FT published a large investigation with juicy details: How Putin blundered into...

That's not even 99.9%. No room for questioning of the narrative is left here. On the other hand, this isn't much better: I understand that not everyon...

I think it's more of a loss to him than anything - and I don't mean that in a dismissive way. TheMadFool/Agent was one of the oldest members of this f...

Yeah, and the fact that it bullshits and occasionally goes off the rails only adds to the authenticity of the experience :)

Yeah, so I've heard. One of what must have been hundreds of publications on this topic is this Ezra Klein podcast with psychologist, neuroscientist an...

ChatGPT is now available in Ukraine: https://t.me/stranaua/91541

Do you mean to say that most of our decisions are too trivial and petty to be measured by the lofty standards of rationality?

This trivializes rationality and equivocates about normativity. I suppose you had in mind rationalizations of subjects' choices such as this? Rational...

We find ourselves in "dystopian" situations more commonly than you think. Evolutionary and cultural adaptations serve to improve fitness on average an...

The experiments falsify game theory predictions. Despite all the "isn't it obvious?" sentiment going in this thread, that's not a trivial result, thou...

You are overthinking this. We ought to do what feels right (or what you think is right - whichever word you prefer). That's just what ought means.

I doubt it. They know full well that Americans would not agree to that. And those systems don't have the range to strike deep in the interior anyway. ...

I agree, and I never said otherwise. There are arguments in favor of the Russia-did-it theory (e.g. this), and I could buy some of them, but not with ...

Now this is interesting. WoPo article says that Ukraine’s rocket campaign reliant on U.S. precision targeting, officials say. What's more, while Ukrai...

Sure, but that is a hypothetical that has little to do with reality, so I am not sure how this is an objection to what I said. 1. Europe was already o...

While most everyone else here has been attacking this thesis, to me it seems almost - or even exactly - tautological. "Seeming" is nothing other than ...

Hersh was once a respected journalist - Pulitzer winner and all that. But he went off the rails a while ago. His wiki page mentions some of that, and ...

Now let's hear from random conspiracy nuts!

Let's just say that Seymour Hersh's "investigation," based entirely on a single anonymous source, doesn't move my opinion one way or another. It might...

I don't know. At its best, Hollywood has produced quality entertainment, as well as some solid, earnest but accessible works, the kind that contend fo...

Seymour Hersh just posted a blow-by-blow account of How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline, going into details of secret meetings and CIA repor...

Woke up with this playing in my head :death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd9EFJaURmI

Page 3: I kind of skipped classic Hollywood westerns (there are two or three that I like) and went straight for Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns. So ...

Page 2 I am not into horror, but The Shining is classic for a reason. + Another Year I've seen these: Raining Stones The Wind that Shakes the Barley I...

I've seen so many good movies, I couldn't possibly rank them. Maybe I'll just pick some from others' lists. (Mostly for style and atmosphere, which is...

For a student of philosophy, sure. Except that for many, studying philosophers and their texts is not a stepping stone towards future practice, but th...

A lot of academic philosophy is focused more on itself than on concepts of "world, existence, reality and truth." Much of what is taught and published...

Speaking of the Helsinki Final Act (Helsinki Accords), a few weeks ago the Russian government banned the Moscow Helsinki Group - one of the oldest hum...

In Proust this juxtaposition of experience with expectation and imagination can go in different ways. Remember his disappointment when at last he was ...

Science can only "dubunk" the mysticism of moral norms when it is opposed to mystical narratives concerning their origins and operation, such as those...

Thanks for Clarifying your thinking. Yeah, that's a non-starter then. Is does not debunk ought. A naturalistic theory of morality does not have it as ...

Well, to summarize my perhaps a bit convoluted response, I'll reiterate PhilosophyRunner's question: You yourself seem rather conflicted on this point...

Yes, much of what Russia is now lobbing at ground targets was not primarily intended for that purpose. And the problem with that is not only the size ...

Hello Mark and welcome to the forum! First, when you say "this empirical finding," I am assuming you are referring to this, plus your generalizations/...

Human Rights Watch: Russian Attacks on Energy Grid Threaten Civilians Amnesty International: Russian attacks on critical energy infrastructure amount ...

Not likely. Terror against civilians has been their favored tactics practically from the beginning of the invasion, or rather since the leadership rea...

That's not an apt analogy. A magazine or a paper is not a place for discussion. Yes, sometimes a response to a published piece may be published, but f...

Our primary source of confidence in our senses and our reason is that we don't have a choice. You either take them as given or you are lost. Yes.

Doesn't follow. Nothing follows if you can't take the reliability of your cognitive faculties for granted. The argument is so corrosive that it underm...

No, I think Nagel is right in this instance. You cannot pull yourself out of the abyss of skepticism by your bootstraps using reasoning and empirical ...

Caring about something is not hypocritical unless it is not genuine. And don't see any reason to believe that most Europeans who object to the Russian...

I don't see a need to be notified whenever someone mentions me. This doesn't happen offline (and that's probably for the best), so why should this be ...

Scale of alleged torture, detentions by Russian forces in Kherson emerges This is in regards to why those selfish Ukrainians are giving their lives to...

Does this work for anyone? I don't see any way to check or uncheck a category on the Categories page. Instead, if you open a particular category page,...

You mean to say that your horse is higher because you don't care about anything (besides your income, natch)? Well, if you believe that "states and or...

The difference between National Socialists and plain socialists appears to be pretty tenuous.

The problem here isn't just that you are ignorant of the facts (you are). The problem is that you think that it's OK for one country to invade and sub...

We started this discussion with the thesis "The brain is the generative source of experience," which was presented as an essential physicalist commitm...

Ookey... So Ukraine does not have its own history, language and culture and does not have a right to exist as a sovereign nation (no matter what its p...