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More than that: things are shoddily designed because they involve no designer: the shoddiness in question can itself be explained by the evolutionary ...

Among the first implications of intelligent design is just how unintelligent any such designer would be. One of the first things you learn when you st...

Andreas Wagner - Arrival of the Fittest: How Nature Innovates Ernest Cline - Ready Player One (first fiction book in... months)

So I see you're not really asking a question. Perhaps you should have titled your thread 'I made up my mind that the gender pay gap is a myth, and wou...

Ah yes, the use of numbers, how nefarious. Next they'll be doing studies and collecting evidence. The nerve.

This. So much this. So there's much pose-striking without substance, a mood or air that simply demands agreement or rejection without reflection.

There's a certain genre of philosobroing - not limited to Peterson - that trades very actively on 'I'm not being provocative, I'm just telling it like...

Oh god, I watched about 3/4s of the Paglia/Peterson discussion a while back and just had to stop. It was such a rambly mess of a talk, and the whole d...

Word salad.

It's true that - as @"Wayfarer" says - the ancient philosophical conception of Logos was that which was expressed by the universe in its unfolding, bu...

Ah, I wasn't referring to the article, which I've not read. Peterson's biggest sin for me is simply his banality. I was curious about him for a while ...

As someone on my facebook put it, Peterson's appeal is to philosobros, whose 'radicality' stems from defending the status quo wherever he finds it. An...

Whaddya think? Sway you on UBI any?

Gosh it's like someome here has never read Hume before.

Well according to Pierce, English stands in a triadic relation to symmetry, so therefore the epistemic cut that Pattee speaks of means that you need t...

I'm just surprised people are still playing Pokemon go - it gets old so fast! On the other hand, everyone should know how to play Bocce - that's way m...

Current first world problem: I have what is essentially an 800 page textbook on evolution* that I really want to read, but also don't, because reading...

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Sure.

Nah fuck that guy. Writing 'you make my dick hard' in the workplace in public, no matter how poetically couched, is about as straightforward a case fo...

Super interesting interview. I do wish these people would drop the outdated 'inside/outside' / 'internalist/externalist' vocabulary though. The distin...

Damn straight.

Can you two children please knock it off. You're embarrassments to yourselves. If you've nothing of philosophical relevance to say, say nothing.

These for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_theory#Axioms Without commenting on Peirce, what's missing in this cha...

Pure science - science without reference to the empirical - is an oxymoron, so I don't think it's appropriate to say logic is pure science, and scienc...

I think what you're missing is the specificity of logic: logic is a very specific thing, a bunch of formal rules for making inferences (modern logic a...

But no scientific method establishes, say, the axiom of extentionality: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/equations/AxiomofExtensionality/NumberedEq...

Mmm, it's literally preaching to the converted, in the phrase's full, non-metaphoric sense.

Yep. That's the basic conceit of all 'ontological arguments for God': they build God's existence in from the beginning then pretend to extrapolate it ...

The greatest being must exist... if the greatest being exists. But the argument doesn't establish this if.

Byung-Chul Han - The Agony of Eros Byung-Chul Han - Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese A low period at work, so I'm tearing though some shorter works...

"It was of no small importance for a painter’s career in China to get a forgery of an Old Master into the collection of a well-known connoisseur. He w...

"The revelation of an aesthetic mechanism for the evolution of female sexual anatomy in waterfowl is a profoundly feminist scientific discovery. It is...

Huh. The more you know.

In the Categories list on the left, when you're in the thread, the category will be bolded. You can't see what category a thread is in until you're in...

Richard Prum - The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - And Us Jakob von Uexküll - A Foray Into...

Like literally every 'ontological argument for God' ever, the OP assumes its conclusion. All the argument can show - all every such ontological argume...

Fun fact: the original saying is 'you can't eat your cake and have it too' - which makes more sense, when you think about it in temporal order - but w...

None shalt speak against cake without severe repercussion.

And to reason is to make inferences. It the height of silliness to think animals cannot make inferences or pose inferential questions. And your 'seven...

Tell me what you understand to be at stake when a 'why?' question is posed. What kind of answer is being sought after, in your opinion? It's not clear...

Then you haven't looked hard enough. It's your question.

Phrased as vaguely as that, one could deny or affirm a great deal without it having any iota of significance.

You need to read up on the intelligence of animals. I explained why, I suggest you go back and read.

Oh yeah that reminds me: it's utterly irrelevant that 'how many?' is two words and the other questions listed are one word. The number of words is utt...

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Have you seen the Kurzgesagt primer on it? (I love this channel). It mentions that aspect of it as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl39KHS07Xc T...

To be fair, I'm generally permanently like that around food :P A matter of course(s), one could say. My sister gets back from 6 months in China tomorr...

Yeah, as Michael's quote captures, it's this idea of 'self-reliance' that is seen undermined by initiatives like UBI; the question of 'dependency' and...

I grew up in Malaysia and I'll say with only minimal bias that I legit think that country has the best food in the world :D Yeah, one of the reasons w...