I'm talking about both. Yale has an uncommonly luxurious undergraduate program, and it would take a while to know what it really involves. The unit ti...
Does what we have now in academia approximate your proposal? When you talk about 'bad ideas', do you include evaluatively (morally, politically) bad a...
I think the answer would depend on the details of the affirmative action program. My intuition is that affirmative action doesn't entail that innocent...
Okay I'll try to bring some things together here. The claim is that historicism question matters because its only if ahistoricism is rejected that the...
Fair point. I should have said 'I'm not primarily interested in labels'. What I'm driving at is that I don't yet see precisely why or how much the his...
Sure, I agree with that... you probably misunderstood something I said. By saying 'for historical reasons' I meant that the explanation for this tende...
So to be analytic about it, according to your interpretation the claims of Schuringa and the people he is implicitly defending are: (1) historicism is...
Right. But how do we deal with this fact? I tend towards liberal principles as a baseline, but think we might have to look elsewhere for how to deal w...
Tell me if I read you right... You point to two types of defects in the marketplace idea. The first is the generic problem of human stubbornness, it s...
I'm confused, Banno. Surely analytic philosophy is more like a methodology than a set of claims. How can a methodology be complete or consistent? That...
A general point: I feel like hardcore partisans of any stripe are apt to make exaggerated claims of exclusion and marginalization. Anything less than ...
Yeah what does that mean though? I didn't get that. It's presented as a bad thing that feminism is regarded as a move in an ongoing debate. But surely...
Well, according to the article it's not about a unique system of logic but a way of doing philosophy that isn't focused on social action, believes in ...
Schuringa's article is talking about the '49 Red Scare and the whole cultural milieu associated with it, and argues that it had long-lasting effects. ...
You seem to be saying that we can choose whether our concepts are fuzzy or not. If we choose for them to be fuzzy, then, it seems to me, we face a fur...
Of course, the boundaries around what counts as a good excuse are vague, but it seems like there is a spectrum between things it is simply unreasonabl...
Well yes, in a sense. Cavell seems to agree that there are facts about what a promise is. It is part of the grammar of 'promise', for example, that to...
My talk about experience was a bit of a polemical tangent. I wasn't trying to represent Cavell's own view. Even so, I think you've been uncharitable. ...
I appreciate you taking the time, Antony. It's helpful. I haven't read this part of Cavell, it seems. I took the give and take of reasons to occur whe...
I thought I'd add some random anecdotes. A former student of his, a professor of mine, said he was as good in conversation as he was on the page (and ...
That's well put. I guess the idea of moral progress is just deeply compelling for me. I want to rank forms of life across time and space. Rather than ...
Thanks for your reply Zugzwang. While Cavell's philosophy itself might be a 'nice' and 'optional' activity for a privileged minority of people with a ...
Ok I'm starting to see the idea more clearly now. So is the thought that the crucial auditory simulations that this neurological development facilitat...
Okay sure so we've got the ability to play sounds just like we're hearing them. How does this lead to language acquisition? It seems like there are ma...
Not sure all the pieces of an explanation are present here... What does the "connection from the brain's central processing *back* to the auditory pro...
Can't the utilitarian say that the right action is that with the highest expected utility from the actor's point of view? In your example of saving th...
Philosophy is stressful in that you are constantly challenged. Philosophising about politics is even more stressful in that you are constantly challen...
In orthodox terminology, it looks like (1) is sex and (2) and (3) are different ways of thinking about gender. (2) is an internalist account. (3) is a...
Yeah I think it did increase our stress levels. Inequality does that. Especially for those lower in the hierarchy. If we use socio-economic status as ...
From a little bit of research, it seems that the 'why then?' question has to do with the ending of the last ice age and population growth. A warmer cl...
Great point. It sounds like you think agriculture was a bad deal for the oppressed majority, but a good deal for the oppressive minority. But it must ...
Nice. I think I agree I just want to clarify something. Let's accept the hypothesis suggested by darthbarracuda that it was resource scarcity that cau...
That's an interesting connection you both make to the idea of the Fall. I'll say something about it in a moment. There seems to be a tension in what y...
Yeah that's another arguable reading. Using the universalisation maxim of the categorical imperative, you could argue that self-harm fails the contrad...
Kantian - arguably a violation of one's imperfect duty to develop one's talents (or something similar) Utilitarian - taking actions which fail to gene...
I repeat: You're just reasserting your claim, not defending the existence of presuppositions in your example of a question. But I'll bite. How's this?...
I think that's true, although it isn't obvious. You could argue that you don't need to presuppose that some answer will satisfy the inquiry. Maybe the...
Yes. You presented an example of a putatively genuine question and suggested that, as such, it contained presuppositions. I argued that it didn't cont...
I think there's a bunch of stuff going on. We find contrarians in the IDW looking for an opportunity to oppose 'woke dogmas' and get martyred by the i...
Yep. So I am not presupposing anything. Right? My claim was that in asking the question "What's that, what is that for?" I am not presupposing that X ...
I wouldn't say that I presuppose that it has a purpose. It remains open, for instance, that it could be a bit of useless shrapnel. All I know is what ...
I'm still confused, Banno. I don't know how much I need to assume in order to pose a question. Here's my attempt to reconstruct the argument. I think ...
Okay, interesting. So as my reply to Benj96 suggested, perhaps I am making more of the distinction between question and questioner than you are. I wan...
I can agree that it is impossible for a person to intentionally pose a question that they don't recognise as being sensible or coherent. This is becau...
I'm not certain about any of that. At most, I would say that my motivation to post the question might rely, psychologically, on these assumptions. But...
To follow on from your thoughts... I think you are probably right that bodybuilding is just like another other project in that its core appeal and sou...
Now I wonder how we should characterize neurotic as opposed to non-neurotic concern with looking a certain way, and how the notion of vanity fits in. ...
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