Lesson #1 in pathological paranoia: go around asking how we know something is not the case: how do we know the royals aren't really blue bloods? How d...
I've seen this being shared around my circles too, and I think the most devastating passage is this one: "Activism, then, is arrogant brats holding “p...
Unless you are your stance, perhaps not too stupid to speak, but maybe a bit of brushing up in the comprehension department wouldn't be the worst idea...
Perhaps you need to set out a positive thesis about how 'linguistic minds' work (what is meant and entailed by the term 'linguistic minds'), then set ...
What I'm asking is far more basic than 'why' - justification presupposes the conceptual coherency of what is so justified, and what I'm suggesting is ...
Depends if you think metaphysics is a just a neutral term for some sort of transhistorical discipline or a name for a set of historically specific or ...
The important thing is to distinguish between treating this inability to 'see oneself' as a mere epistemological limitation, and between treating it i...
Cool right? I read, not too long a ago, a great book that discusses in pretty accessible terms, the science behind how kinesins like those work: this ...
Logical conclusion of what exactly? The unargued-for dogmatism that you've simply assumed throughout this thread? You all but admitted, previously, th...
You're the evidence guy - and so far there is no 'evidence' that you have for a moment thought about, or understood the specificities of philosophy. I...
Am I? I like to think that I'm making or rather promoting claims about useful ways of thinking about knowledge, ways that can be pressed into the serv...
Or, tertium datur, different epistemological methods are valid or appropriate for different fields, each one calling for the best or set of best kinds...
I don't care about defending phenomenology at all, at least to the degree that I'm not so callous and brazen to claim that phenomenology alone exhaust...
Ah yes, philosophy by last minute Google search. Or wikipedia. By Gods, the class of argument on display. Perhaps you can explain to me the relation b...
Then you agree completely, I suggest, with the impetus behind claims of privilege. Do 'they'? Last I checked, the notion of intersectionality - much d...
Where do you get this nonsense from? Since when was phenomenology defined by 'the premise that intuition delivers knowledge'? Do you have a source for...
This! This is - or should be - the import of what 'privilege' is about: it's acknowledging that one's experience is not universalizable, and that one ...
That's a nice revisionist retelling of our conversation, but you might recall that I wasn't trying to answer your question. I merely intervened to say...
Ah yes, my mistake, to ask how scientism justifies its claims is quite obviously off-topic in a thread discussing scientism and its critics. Perhaps t...
You're the one making the psuedo-positive claim that only science can answer 'the questions of human existence', without elaborating on (1) what those...
I'm quite convinced Quine understood those questions in a meaningful way because he left behind a rich and robust body of philosophical work demonstra...
Quine? Who spent his career trying to understand and elaborate upon what such questions entail? Quine, whose most famous paper had the distinction of ...
That much is clear. Epecially given that one of the chief virtues of philosophy is to illuminate not merely answers to questions of these sort, but to...
The argument is simply that most of what you have written is meaningless - that is to say, not even wrong. You speak of 'questions of existence' as th...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/brainless-embryos-suggest-bioelectricity-guides-growth-20180313/ More cool shit! Evidence that bioelectricity functions...
Yeah, sorry, but the understanding of philosophy so far demonstrated by pseudo is so poverty stricken that it's hard to take much of what is said here...
In some happy science news: https://www.livescience.com/62000-scott-kelly-dna-twin-study.html "When Scott Kelly returned to Earth after a 340-day voya...
:up: This is a theme that has long been emphasised by Zizek and a few others, who have noted that the ultimate consequence of Kant's reasoning here is...
Or maybe you're ascribing far too much unilateral power to genes, which are well known for functioning differentially. I.e. the same genes can do diff...
Poor Apo, who has to write so furiously away to cover over his elementary inability to distinguish between scope and modality, while suffering from pa...
So this is a thread about deepfakes and not cool words - that is now a thread about cool words. I can't distinguish the reality of this thread from......
Book clubs for entire books are hard to sustain. We used to do articles here, but even for those, people eventually ran out of steam. We managed to ge...
I was wondering when someone might bring this up. I mean, when one can't tell the difference between reality and simulation, reality - all of reality ...
Well sure, if one indefatigably thinks one point of view is correct, one will also think that one's point of view is indefatigably correct. I will gra...
Well it's mostly quite clearly a heap of horseshit that doesn't even do justice to the science itself, but even more obviously no one likes to have th...
Thinking about it, I think I understand scientism as a broad attitude of dismissal towards anything that doesn't take its bearings from science. As in...
Strictly speaking, Communism ought to entail the 'withering away of the state' - at least according to Engels (i.e. no government at all). In the mean...
He's less a prophet of capitalism than he is a travelling salesman of the status quo. It's why he can feel so disproportionally threatened by a kids m...
I blame the Germans. German grammar has a quirk in which you can compound words like you wouldn't believe, so you get words like Rechtsschutzversicher...
It's nice that you read it that way! Most people read the notion of 'love of wisdom' as those who strive to attain it; but ????? (philos) is friend - ...
"Thinking has interests that do not coincide with those of living; indeed, they can and have been pitted against the latter. ... Philosophy should be ...
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