I was thinking about this too, and especially the curious idea - let me know if you agree - that even positive injunctions in the law are, in a way, s...
Eh, enough with the pseudo-psychology. Anyway, I complained that you made an unsubstantiated claim, when all the established evidence shows otherwise....
Eh, I've always liked Neitzsche' quip that thinking is not something that anyone does but is that which befalls them. I have no claim to mastery over ...
One thing to keep in mind, when talking about things like career preferences, is also how those preferences were cultivated in the first place. If it ...
Most of what I think and say is not my own! Almost all of what I know in philosophy or elsewhere is what I've cobbled together from others, and I cert...
But these aren't my ideas about aesthetics. These are other people's ideas, supported by a bunch of evidence. I'm realying them to you. My gosh, if yo...
Yes, the appeal to actual real life scientists sounds like an "I". Uh-huh. I gave you citations - a link to an article even - feel free to educate you...
To the contrary, the issue is not anthropomorphism but a vast underestimation of animals on your part. There is an answer to your question because the...
True, true, but it's important to be precise: if we admit both senses, to the degree that nature is not 'well-regulated' in the 2nd sense ('efficient'...
Thank you for reading what I've actually written, rather than childishly fantasizing about projected 'ideologies' and 'political agendas'. In this con...
Can be, but usually aren't, unless you're in Stalinist Russia. It's pretty simple: do IR laws cover each and every aspect of what happens between empl...
To be fair, I don't think the use of legal terminology in philosophy or science is a priori suspect, only that, when and where it it used, it is used ...
No, it doesn't - it's a completely empty set of words used by simpletons and dimwtis, so much so that one can predict exactly when and where it gets w...
Yes and no. As in, you're right about the language thing, but the stakes are higher than just 'being careful with language'. Holding to a certain view...
Judith Butler's "Can One Live a Good Life in a Bad Life" (RP176) is unmissable, and Jason Moore's "Nature in the Limits to Capital" (RP193) is great t...
Heh, the quote caps off a chapter where alot of it is explained - hence why it seems so condensed - but the gist of it is setting itself against repre...
I posted part of this in the Quote Cabinet the other day, but since you asked!: "Art is the opening up of the universe to becoming-other ... is the wa...
No, a murderer took a gun to 35 of our citizens who were shot dead in real life. It was brutal and viscous, and there was nothing delicate about it. I...
I agree, which is why philosophers like Cartwright and physicists like Davis have argued that we either need to drop the reference to laws altogether,...
I used natural selection in my OP as an example of universal 'biological law' - all of biology is subject to it - which nonetheless does not shape all...
Not at all. What I'm saying amounts to: pay attention to how we use language, and specifically the varying or non-univocal motivations behinds those u...
A word on truth: I've been somewhat carried away by the discussion on truth even through the OP wasn't about the truth of the fundamendal laws as such...
I disagree. Scientific modelling is a very specific process in which a system of inferences available in a formal system (the model) can be made to/ou...
I largely agree with this, as does Cartwright, for whom fundamental laws are indeed useful as explanatory tools, with the caveat that their explanator...
Yeah, it's a careful line to tread. Cartwright's position - which makes alot of sense to me, is anti-realism about laws, but realism about (scientific...
But it is not the scientific way of understanding nature. That's the point. You'd like it to be the 'scientific way' of understanding nature, because ...
But the point is they don't, except in highly idealised situations, 'do so in a regular way that can be quantified'. Your statement is literally untru...
Heh, I was waiting for this rejoinder, but didn't want to drop an even bigger quote than I did, because this is exactly what she addresses in the sect...
The curious thing about the laws is that they are almost entirely undescriptive. In fact, one of the most interesting things that Cartwirght demonstra...
It could be an example of such an misunderstanding: the question after all is an empirical one - is there evidence to show that happiness evolved into...
Is there way to impose a 5 or 10 minute no-post delay for users posting new threads? It would help alot with spam bots without impacting regular users...
*sigh*. Circumscribe: draw a circle around (scribe a circle?), clear a space for, without yet filling in that space. Via negativa: the way of the nega...
I've read the first two chapters of that Scarry book (out of four) and they - along with Alphonso Lingis's "Carrion Body, Carrion Utterance" - set me ...
Exactly this. There's nothing worse for a philosophy discussion than 'fisking'. It saps the life out of conceptual development and blunts to the point...
Hah, I like it. There's actually quite a long philosophical lineage of reflection (hah) on the 'being' of the image in the mirror, one that culminated...
Why the dogs??? :( We had to put my Corgi down last year and it was just about the saddest thing I've ever had to do. They're family, and it sucks. Bu...
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