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We might say a philosopher is someone who engages in the philosophical method. I've tried to articulate exactly what that is, and I'm having trouble. ...

Well worth it. The Ghost Stories for Christmas are generally good. Old, but still creepy. Michael Hordern does a nice job as Professor Parkin.

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If we can define by example, consider Professor Parkin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeIadBJCPxA&ab_channel=MontagueJames The most philosopher bit i...

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Thanks for setting the context. I wasn't aware of the terminology from the OP. One way to approach the question is to perhaps enquire what God and hum...

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A philosopher is someone who talks like this: "Being a philosopher is a sufficient (but not a necessary) condition for being a cunt." EDIT: for the av...

Yes, I think that analysis seems right, but it only applies in first part the post systems. In systems where small parties get to exercise power propo...

Your example of alcohol (and other similar examples we can generalise from) shows that alterations in brain function in humans alter the quality of wh...

O'Neill Cylinders look better to me as habitats, but require a lot of mass. Maybe moon first, space elevator on the moon as a way to get mass into spa...

Sure. Another arbitrary factor is what we take as a single event. Is the evolution of the dinosaurs one event or lots of events?

I think there are substantively four different questions in the OP. All of them are extremely interesting questions. I suggest picking on one of them ...

That's what I think too. However I am sympathetic to people who don't think like that. I can understand it when people, especially scientists who are ...

I am a panpsychist. I don't think any functions happen in the dark. But for the emergentist, yes, because all functions, prior to the modelling relati...

There is no un-curated information

Sure I understand that might be what it looks like.

Oh, sure, that's a very good point. We are conscious, we know that, and we know what we experience depends on brain function, so we know that there is...

It's not that. That may well be true. Separating definition from theory is really important. Functionlists, I allege, nearly always end up having to r...

Please say something that looks like you're making a case as to why the modelling must feel like something, why it can't happen in the dark. Use the w...

I read the words you wrote. That should be enough no? What else do you want me to do?

I might take the trouble to look into it if I think it's worth it. I don't see any reason to. You haven't given a prima facie reason why the modelling...

It's grammar. I don't think you're actually saying what you mean. You might be making a perfectly good point, but you haven't made it clear.

This is the crux of it. Why should it feel like something? Why can't the modelling happen in the dark?

Eh? All three are nouns

It's unlikely you'll get a conversation. I'm a monist but it's perfectly obvious, as you have pointed out, that the first challenge that a monist has ...

Yes, that might be another way of expressing the same concept. Goal-directedness is always thinking of a future state. And to achieve anything, one ne...

Perhaps, if work is goal-directed activity, play is non-goal directed activity. Any good?

I actually think the idea of a legal system that contained only rights is an interesting concept. There are ways to structure democracies that mitigat...

Bartricks, I suspect one reason people don't engage with you very much on your own terms is because they forsee hours of weary unproductive uncharitab...

This OP badly needs an example

One issue: there's no representation for some positions. Lets say you are in favour of huge reduction in the US military in favour of programmes of so...

Very low. :) My ironometer clearly wasn't working this morning.

Do you really think that?

What Oliver5 said. It's a mechanical result of the first part the post system. You vote for the people who have the best chance of defeating who you d...

Interestingly, there is no 7th dimension. It skips straight from 6 to 8.

I think this thread is a creative variable thing. Does that work?

I have a soft spot for new ways to carve up the world. This is an interesting one. Are the 'things' you have in mind physical objects? Activities? Goa...

I remained awake and I'm glad I did. I remember when I lived in the North West of England where it was customary to accost neighbours on the way to th...

Yep. I'd be interested as well. I'm baffled as to how anyone can look at the collapse of WTC7 and think it was office fires. None of the NIST stuff is...

Bylaw, yeah, team reason gets on my tits. Don't like the other teams much either.

I don't see how any approach to the study of consciousness which is not rooted in a phenomenological approach can actually be a study of consciousness...

Valid but unsound I reckon. At least #1 is false, to my mind. Omnibenevolence only entails that from God's POV everything is good. That's perfectly co...

That's interesting (I hate to say). Looks like the term goes back longer than I thought. According to Wikipedia there may have been a time that it was...

I'm going to kill myself from boredom, but to buy myself a bit of time I'll make another post. I think the issue here is that the meaning of 'conspira...

this is boring me stupid

Was it a conspiracy as well as a plot? A secret plot just is a conspiracy isn't it? There is no single truther conspiracy. I don't believe any particu...

The only very specific conspiracy theories I know for sure are true are regarding conspiracies I've been personally involved in, featuring me as a man...

This is just a matter of meanings. A conspiracy theory is when someone speculates, with or without good evidence, that the correct explanation for som...

There is no common sense in philosophy. The writer has to be clear and unambiguous, and not blame the reader for not understanding it. Common sense is...