One of the best cases for UI I know is in Rutger Bergman's Utopia for Realists, where he looks not only at the theoretical benefits but delves into th...
Heh, to be fair, I correlate my utensils with the kind of food I'm eating - I almost always eat Asian food with chopsticks, Western food with knives a...
Sure, you can change anything into a 'what' question if you play around with words enough, but you lose the specificity of the first-personness or the...
An interesting excercise. Have to agree with Charleton though that 'where?' easily stands as the prima interrogazione, and for the same reasons: where...
There are few nicer trinkets one can own in the world than a beautifully inlaid wooden backgammon set. Such a good game. Pretty sure our family set lo...
I'd say that there's always something additive about what are called virtuous cycles: the move from A to B to A again 'adds' something to A, or sustai...
This, by the way, is precisely the kind of statement that discussions of privilege are meant to highlight. There are some who don't have the 'privileg...
I'm less interested in the 'is' of guilt here than the apparent 'ought' of guilt: the idea that apparently, acknowledging privledge entails a normativ...
Okay, but why are you talking about guilt? Is anyone but you talking about guilt? Especially guilt that one 'should' be feeling? Or is this just a bun...
I've heard the references. I'm wondering about the 'implications' you're drawing from them, and how warranted they are. I'm particularly interested in...
I've been intentionally callous, but then, there's so little here worth taking seriously. Pseudonym reels off so many words, all the better to not tal...
It's the basic reactionary conceit: when faced with real life cases of concrete harm, retreat into abstract universals and ham up intectualized ambigu...
Oh right, so what you're saying is you're not talking about any of the concrete cases and real life incidents that have defined the major thrust of me...
"Of course men can't control themselves". "Women secretly like it". "Consent is pseudo-ethical". "It's all subjective tho lol". Retroactive addition: ...
If it helps, ProgrammingGod was banned a few days ago - and if you don't notice Mad's missing threads, it's because he hasn't yet complained about the...
The me2 movement has been the source of some of the most intense and widespread conversation regarding sexual conduct in the public sphere in a long t...
Excellent article by Sara Maurer on how Daphene Merkin's critique misses the dimension of labour in the me2 movement: "Merkin may be faithfully repres...
Erwin Straus's The Primary World of the Senses. So excited! Now if I can only find Jan Patocka's Body, Community, Language, World for less than USD$28...
So I did it. I ordered the ridiculously expensive book I've been hunting for for a couple of years now because it was at the bargain basement price of...
(Y) + 1 :P I remember being a little put out when we took it off here, but I've come to realise that it's just with better without. It puts a stop to ...
The article linked to was a conspiratorial hack piece. Anything thinking it worthy of discussion is nothing other than just such a sympathizer. I'm no...
"Racists, homophobes, sexists, Nazi sympathisers, etc.: We don't consider your views worthy of debate, and you'll be banned for espousing them." To th...
I deleted it. If you'd like to discuss the merits of defending convicted serial child rapists, I'd prefer it not to be in a perfectly good thread abou...
Damn fine first post! Nicely summerizes why I reckon the trolley problem is basically toy ethics - fun to play with, but almost entirely unilluminatin...
But that evolution locates local peaks in fitness is precisely the point! A mouse's metabolism along with its regulatory mechanisms is optimised for i...
If by 'a part' you mean about 16 hours a day, sure. Long enough, in other words, that water would function as the environmental niche driving hippo mo...
Ah yeah, I saw that video when it came out but didn't remember it when writing this thread. But yeah, it basically gets at the thrust of one of the ce...
+ @"Augustino" But you're severely underestimating the significance of such a change here, I think. With respect to metabolism, we're talking about tw...
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