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There are other interpretations of why the pigeons might have behaved the way they did. The authors of this 2009 paper, for instance, say that 'these ...

Ever since the 1980's there's been a substantial minority of leading stock exchange investors using financial astrology. Amazingly enough, it sometime...

There are many cases of corporate manslaughter in the UK now, yes. You can browse them on this law firm's specialist website. The cases mostly focus o...

Hi mew, I was just musing on this in another thread. I'm no Aristotle expert but I've been reading a bit in the last couple of years. 'Essence' is a L...

I don't know if this is from Wikipedia, Wayfarer, but I just wanted to comment that to me this summary is somewhat inverted. Human beings, like every ...

It's odd to me that early on in the argument you quote (Law on evil) Law distinguishes 'moral' from 'natural' evil, i.e. human-initiated versus suffer...

Welcome, Victorie. I am an ungifted amateur when it comes to physics, so physicsworld.com is one place I go when more sciencey people here succeed in ...

Here in the UK we have had 'corporate manslaughter' on the statute books for the last decade, being homicide by a corporation. The Health & Safety Exe...

How is an analysis passive? Sometimes, also, language 'goes on holiday' - then I think other work comes into play, where we try and understand quite w...

This is a withered and partial account of 'emotions' in general. Who are we at this juncture in time to judge so definitively? How is any feature of o...

I'm an old Green leftie, but I do think Hanover is right that many protests against Trump speak of a great sense of liberal entitlement that somehow c...

Rohan, you sound like a thoughtful person with a lively brain, so my bet is you're going to do ok in working life. I was a creative writer most of my ...

I don't get it either. I gather it was a Fodor proposal though I remember the Puttnam talk about how he didn't know an elm from a beech. What, for ins...

No, my mind was addled by mathematical structuralism, point taken.

https://philpapers.org/rec/VELLAA (Velleman, Love as a Moral Emotion) If you go to philpapers you can search on various philosophical aspects of love,...

I've gone back to school in what's nearly old age to study philosophy. The enthusiasm of people on this forum was one of my motivating factors a few y...

I am 24 hours fresh from a talk about mathematical structuralism which I only one-tenth understood. I believe I have grasped though that we could safe...

I am inclined to regard corvids' memory of where they have stashed their food - the most able can remember up to 500 locations - as 'knowledge'. Just ...

I went to a philosophical talk about historiography yesterday which brought me back to this topic. In writing history, people of many different backgr...

I don't see that I disagreed with these facts.

My ontology is something of a blank: I take everything as epistemology, provisional, but that most of the time I live as if things were thus and so. I...

Yes, that Bangladesh. I think andrewk is referring to the widely-known prediction that Bangladesh, whatever their present magnificent record, is the c...

Well said. :)

It's good to try and see things from an 'unbiased' perspective, I agree. I don't, however, in my heart, accept the opposition you propose in this phra...

I agree. I went to an interesting talk the other week about morality and ai. One sideline area that interests me is how we read other minds. At the ou...

I should have made it clearer that although I think panprotopsychism is 'more attractive' than panpsychism, I don't endorse it at all. I agree with yo...

I think you're missing my intended tone, I should have made myself clearer. I do perfectly clearly understand your point.

Depends on which old days, of course. There were the Aristotelian old days when you really ought to be proud of the right things for the right reasons...

You might also be interested in panprotopsychism. This is as Chalmers summarises: I think this is a more attractive view, in that it allows for an evo...

I've been spending several weeks reading about emotion science and emotion in philosophy for an academic project. It still seems to me that 'Othello',...

There are people around with whom one has common ground. A shared love of drink or drugs or music of a certain kind, a shared desire to help others, a...

I read around this topic lately. To add another other option...Perhaps it is that we love to universalise, but sometimes the attempt to patch up a uni...

That's my basic difficulty with 'moral realism'. I can't think of a moral-sounding assertion that is factual. ' is wrong' is an assertion of a belief ...

Presumably any totality is at time t. I'm not a great one for totalities. If a totality is in its details unknowable - and I presume it is - how can w...

I often feel very empty at the end of enterprises but I don't think that short-term result is a guide to what value they had in the medium term for me...

I'm with the pessimists. Alas 'sustainability' has been over-used - sometimes as a pr gloss to non-sustainable ideas - but in the long run homo sapien...

I didn't say it was good. I said it was unalterable. Whether it was good for someone in the first place is neither here nor there (as it happens, I wa...

Is it wrong for tigers to torture children? Is it wrong for other children to torture children, even if we would normally not hold such a child respon...

We are thrown into living or Dasein; there is nothing we can do about our individual history; and because we take so long to develop as independent cr...

It's an anarchic setup. That's both a great pleasure, and infuriating, about all our chats. I think I accepted what I descried to be the principle of ...

I'm reading Joseph Raz, who writes a lot about valuation, and so forth, I don't know if you're acquainted with him. I think you may be confusing two t...

This is an answer to a different question. The question was, what do we know of Scott Pruitt? To me he looks like a shill who'll do the energy corpora...

It's hard to understand what point you're making here in seeming to say you haven't read a thing about the fellow before. I am a fellow from an obscur...

In these troubled times I sometimes turn for my news to the Telegraph, and I see that even they find Mr Pruitt a tad dodgy. This report is from Reuter...

There are certain things which the Tractatus says we should keep silent about. But I think, as you know from other exchanges, that the Tractatus is no...

Sometimes I think words are wasted on the literate.

Well, to each their own. I suppose I like my comedy to challenge stereotypes rather than get a (purported) laugh by playing to them. But then I'm not ...

Just to repeat...I'm a brexit voter and I'm not a racist, although I quite accept that I am shortsighted. I think saying 'Shortsighted racists' as a j...

CAT: I was expecting a guy called Schrodinger

I don't fuck smilers, I just smile back, but to each their own.