It's odd that even though the accusation is particularised as a single conversation with one individual, and other relationships with the family are s...
If I play the lottery, the end is to become rich. If I tell the truth, the end is that the truth be told. I suggest that this is a strong sign of the ...
Sometimes, it is moral to speak truth to power, for example . One usually gets crucified; it is usually not of any great utility. Sometimes what is mo...
Thank you. You are also well named. But at the risk of a little negativity, let us focus on our disagreements and dispense with the compliments. You h...
No they are not. But 'state' relates to 'estate'. In order to institute property relations as a construct, a society has to lay claim to the land whos...
It's odd though, how popular the "argument" form is. A sort of very loud and insistent variety of "he who smelt it dealt it", whereby antiracists beco...
Why is that odd? Personal identity is a social construct. Far and few far and few are the deconstructers of personal identity. Their hens are pink and...
No you ain't. You are entitled to the produce of land to which you hold the title, which if you do, you get from the state. No state, no entitlements,...
Yeah - joke. But also serious in the sense of having experienced a social change that is a threat to identity. It doesn't matter that these things are...
I blame the hippies. the men started to grow their hair long and the women start wearing trousers. It's been downhill ever since. A chap doesn't know ...
Onions grow from onion seed. Don't put your fingers in the electric socket. It's worth learning to read. Don't excrete in the drinking water supply. T...
Why should I care if I am beheaded, or you are? But I do. I don't pretend it is rational though. A book is holy to the extent that people do care abou...
Apart from the undeniable claims that the past led to the present and and the economy is responsible for inequality, this doesn't say very much to me....
Er, no. Any more than I'm saying Jews should shut up and go home, or into exile or any other place. I'm saying when we stop arguing about silly things...
Yes. It is silly to argue about the definition of war, or whether a genocide is a war or not, or whether the slave trade or the apartheid system was o...
No. On the one hand science cannot tell us what it is to be fully human, and on the other hand psychology is far more than a matter of opinion. I will...
Well since we're here, and the interview is current, I'll make a comment as a non-royal married to a mixed race woman. On the one hand, who gives a fu...
It seems there are two things to be troubled about for your average self-styled "rational" philosopher. The first is the subliminal and therefore unco...
@"180 Proof" reminds me that the body is generally racialised and universally enslaved to the intellect - as depicted by Eldridge Cleaver. Find me the...
An interview ... Yeah, but what's it really about Adam? https://time.com/5941744/adam-curtis-cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-glo...
You might also look into "embodied cognition", or if you want to give yourself a proper headache, try Julia Kristeva. And/or https://www.artandeducati...
Obviously it depends whether it's my pate, or my wife's chin. Let's assume that I am not bald and my wife's chin is not hairy, and don't fucking argue...
I never understood what the problem was. The answer is 4. 1 is obviously not a heap; 2 is either a short row or a carefully balanced column; 3 is a ro...
How many kinds of philosopher are there, I find myself wondering? Some answers suggest there are but 2; good and therefore right, and wrong and theref...
I was talking about ADHD. It is hard not to notice how ADHD diagnosis and Ritalin and function as the social control of children. Even more disturbing...
Yes I agree. I think the trauma model is sound and that there is potential value in treatment and prevention both. Again we largely agree, though I th...
It is certainly the basis of CBT as a treatment that depression can be treated by changing thinking, and through addressing negative thoughts, alterin...
You are absolutely correct. My enthusiasm for social and environmental influences on mental health got the better of me. But do you not think that pre...
Turns out, 80% of depressions can be cured by not having a war where you live. https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/people-in-war-torn...
It slightly bothered my that you put the emphasis on suffering, and reducing suffering. The phrase "comfortably numb" comes to mind. Will you choose a...
If I were to ask, "Do we need clothes? What works and what doesn't?" I might get all sorts of answers. Inuit tend to opt for seal-skin, Hawaiians for ...
Here is a very simple outline argument. P1. The laws of nature and other fields can be reduced to physics alone. P2. Humans are part of nature. P3. Hu...
My lords, ladies and gentlemen {and rainbow warriors}, When I were a lad, persons of the feminine persuasion would be addressed and were obliged to st...
A note about Richard and other partially colourblind philosophers. It is not strictly the case that Richard cannot see red, he can see it just fine, b...
That's frankly bizarre. I say "I experience ... " And you say I want to deny experience. I don't have anything to say about that. Notice that in my us...
:rofl: It's very common to be misled. I do see what you mean though. But in the context of a discussion of colour and colour experiences, Richard does...
Then looking is a misleading way to express, which is what I told you a while back. Yes I can remember stuff and manipulate concepts. And this means t...
EDIT: I experience something, I call it the world; I don't call it having an experience. — unenlightened Is that any clearer? Thus I am wearing a red ...
It makes a better story. If Joshua just waved his hand and the walls came tumbling down at once, it would be unsatisfying, like using a developer's ch...
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