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https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-dont-babies-smile-from-birth/ So it turns out that happiness might require a certain level of br...

What's actually interesting too is the way it does this: knowing that it's literally impossible to move from ideality to actuality, it begins in actua...

The long and short of all 'ontological arguments' is that there is no possible move from concept to existence. Even when they seem to discuss 'existen...

Fixed it. First I fixed the illegitimate use of 'is' in (4), which sneaks existence in through the back-door, and made it what it should be: a 'would ...

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-But it seems to me that your emphasis on sense-making - or rather, the modality of sense-making you keep insisting on - is individual, all-too-indivi...

Yeah, that's actually a really fascinating point, the idea that white identity - to the extent there is one - ends up often being sublimated into clas...

A quick note on this, as it is somewhat tangential although still interesting and important: I'm all for metaphysics in the grand, classical sense, bu...

I'm not convinced that we're talking about two different topics, though I think that the fact that you think we are says something about the nature of...

It's not evil though. It's quite excellent, in fact.

I'm okay with opressing racists, and I'm okay with depriving them of their freedom to express their racism. In fact I encourage everyone to opress a r...

Obviously. But then, it would be rational to be ashamed in some circumstances.

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Thinking about the kind of 'privilege' involved here, I think part of why it's so hard to talk about and articulate is that it isn't privilege in a po...

I appreciate your self-citations (hah), and I believe I understand your point quite well, but there's still a misunderstanding here. The basic issue i...

I never said, nor implied, it would make conservatives go away. I don't believe I even invoked 'conservatives' at all. What I did say is that deplatfo...

Mill would have disagreed with me, and I'm okay with that. Given the choice between hypothetical 'danger' and real, currently existing danger, I will ...

I'm all for deplatforming. The problem has always been one of legitimacy. In allowing arguments from racists, say, to be aired, what is conferred upon...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_WcK7WdttxqX0lFWmx5ZGRyQjA/view?usp=sharing 9 pages brief?

Three things. First, I don't understand why you think an account like Protevi's in any way prohibits such a theoretical extension. To the degree that ...

I think this actually cuts both ways. That for some, Marxism is ever more threatening, I think can be attributed to a correlative rise in interest and...

"Nature is the endless generation of problems for culture: the problem of how to live amidst the world of matter, other living beings, and other subje...

I agree that this is where both meet, but also depart from one another (both/and?). A point of refraction or bifurcation, if you will. Again, the poin...

But this is simply not true for the targets you're trying to pin this on. Insofar as, for a Deleuzian anyway, all identity is emergent from difference...

Aaah so much interesting looking stuff here! Got a top 3? Current: Elizabeth Grosz - Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power (rereading) Elizabeth Grosz...

I absolutely appreciate this, and in truth I think this is one of the most important tasks for anyone engaging with continental philosophy today (my o...

The issue though is that one of the fault lines between idealism and materialism is over what kind of thing 'experience' is. That is, at stake is not ...

I don't really understand your response, or at least, in what manner it's meant to be a response to what I said regarding Derrida's formalism and ahis...

You're speaking to an almost dyed-in-the-wool Derridian, so yes, I can totally entertain the possibility. My issue with Derridian analysis, insofar as...

Not implicitly either. Check out the link jorndoe posted with regard to this.

Everytime you see white people, a yin-yang symbol, and an overemphasis on academic credentials (screaming: take me seriousllyyyy!!!) - with some warbl...

It's not CI bashing because not even the CI says that consciousness plays any role in QM. Also worth mentioning is that, strictly speaking, there is n...

Why? I never said rationality is the best thinking tool. I only said that holding rationality to the standard of perfection is a dumb thing to do.

No, it doesn't. It implies that that the entire question is bogus and irrelevant, and that perfection or imperfection is a stupid criteria by which to...

One thing that seems to be missing from the OPs scenario are differential factors. When you say that, in the hypothetical scenario, 1/100 will cause h...

It's not a fucking flaw. Rationality is morally neutral. It doesn't strive for 'perfection', which is an external criteria which you keep trying to im...

To say that rationality has a flaw implies that it is meant to do something, and fails somehow in that something. But the whole point is that rational...

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In the context of QT, observation means physical interaction, that's it. One can play with definitions to one's heart's content, but one can't then re...

Love it! "Well, I have news for the quantum mystic. Your worldview is a load of baloney, built upon mistake after mistake, a foolish understanding of ...

I'm mostly on board with the 4EA paradigm (Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, Extended, Affective), but I think this way oversteps what can be concluded fro...

No as in, Descartes quite literally introduces madness into thought in the form of the malin génie, the 'evil demon' which signifies the utmost derang...

Yeah, these days biochemistry and biophysics are advancing in leaps and strides - I can only hope it overtakes the dead-end that cosmology has now bec...

Right, so, as I said - absolute doubt goes hand in hand with absolute certainty (that which is 'stable and lasting'). It's as if trying to found philo...

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-mutational-timer-built-chemistry-dna.html Ahhhhhhh this is so coooool. DNA has an in-built mechanism for varying the fre...

But even he ended up taking himself seriously in the end - and inspiring legions of lost souls in his wake.

I answered disagree to almost all the questions and ended up with Kant on top. I suspect he's just the default. At least I was zero percent on Plato, ...

I've always liked Adorno's quip that those who fetishize doubt always ultimately end up doing so in order to better secure certainty, rather than for ...

https://i.stack.imgur.com/QfIEc.gif 'With certainty' herp drep. (1) The Sun is round. (2) My cousin Timmy is round. (3) Therefore it follows with cert...

Sure, but the same can be said about any fairy tale you'd like - of which intelligent design is one. 'Just because there's no evidence against it, doe...