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I do hope you're paid to troll these sorts of remark, Agustino. Otherwise I'd take them to undermine everything else you say, as when we're talking se...

Shock news: Brexiter and Remainer agree on way forward :)

I think our social and political lives express culture, which has a history. There is no clear rationality in nature, on my reading. You are claiming ...

I would say these are not ethical examples. If you take those standard thought experiments that Michael Sandel uses about saving one life versus savin...

The question is, what are one's grounds for defining the good? Aristotle mostly reported what like-minded people regarded as virtues, looked at how we...

It says 'up to 7%' regretted their Leave vote and '3%' regretted their Remain vote: one week afterwards. This seems flimsy, and too soon, to me. Here'...

I don't accept an objective world in the way you assume; not as an ontology. But I'm with the earlier-in-the-thread notion - I commit myself to a give...

The liberal commentariat is strongly 'Remain' and still can't seem to get over losing the vote. I voted Brexit. Here's Jenny Jones presenting the Gree...

I hope it will be of interest to link to this debate about Explanation, including one of my favourite philosophers Nancy Cartwright, plus philosopher ...

I was born a lapsed Catholic, my Dad a former devout believer who had lost his faith in the (2nd) war, my Mum a vague Anglican. So in my childhood I g...

Her eyes they shone like diamonds I thought her the queen of the land And her hair it hung over her shoulder Tied up with a black velvet band http://w...

Thanks to everyone who's been posting lately, I just had a busy couple of days. I agree with Moliere that it's often unexplored, what 'world' is or re...

Have to agree. I presume that's part of the reason why at one time he wanted the Tractatus to be republished in the same volume as Philosophical Inves...

You think so? I find a lot more jokes in Derrida than Quine, I must say. Analysis doesn't lend itself to a sense of the absurd, at least in my reading...

It is the relish for the word 'world' that I'm fretting at, in part. The word does seem wonderfully all-encompassing, while conveniently glossing over...

Thanks, Harry. This word domain can sometimes stand for a subsidiary zone and might be useful to me. I don't claim that the world isn't all there is, ...

Cosmos, the Greek word, is interesting in itself, for it implies an order, vis-vis chaos, and I gather was re-invented, as it were, by Humboldt in the...

Well, I will leave Wayfarer to defend his own remark, I picked up on what he said as a common adage often quoted by people, and when so quoted, I beli...

Apo, I didn't mean to paint you as an advocate of factory farming, quite the contrary, I think of you as an eco-friendly poster, indeed I'm intrigued ...

More likely John 17:16. 'They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.'

Thanks BC, I rely on the forum to provide me at least one new nugget of knowledge each day.

It does seem puzzling that you don't enjoy arguing with Deleuze, since he seems to have some of the same primary concerns as you but emerges with a di...

(Suze Rotolo) Yes I think it is good. She seems to look back without any rancour or awe, with indeed, memories of love, and it's a differently-angled ...

Here in the UK that would be white lines and hedgehogs (good line for a lyric btw), but the same principle holds. It does seem to me that people who a...

Great song. I think we're nit-picking about a great man. All prizes are somewhat arbitrary. I'm just reading Suze Rotolo's memoir of the Freewheelin' ...

I am harking back to the evidential: ants appear to recognise themselves in mirrors, and this is a surprise to us. To me the research looks robust but...

Vileness may enter in, if we lack or stifle natural emotion. But so does justice. Justice seeks rational appraisal of emotion. One reading I have of G...

I have Dylan lyrics in my head many days. They're selling postcards of the hanging, today, but other days it can be Johnny's in the basement, or if yo...

I completely agree. When I've spent some hours struggling over some analytic analysis that has emphasised the 'anal' in both those words, it's a relie...

Spring is here, spring is here Life is skittles and life is beer I think the loveliest time of the year Is the spring, I do, don't you? Course you do ...

There is actually some evidence on this front: http://www.journalofscience.net/File_Folder/521-532%28jos%29.pdf

Many people in Yorkshire would like Home Rule. After all, we - Yorkshire folk - are consistently highly-placed in the Olympics medals tables. An alter...

It's interesting how most of us, including the participants in this thread, drift from saying 'non-human animals' to mistakenly saying 'animals' - by ...

She's a Green. You'll have to judge for yourself whether she fits your view of social conservatism. http://www.jill2016.com/

I hear there's this nice woman called Jill Stein...

One starting point would be that you have a reasonable expectation that we will understand your question and the words and grammar that express it. A ...

I think the idea of 'political correctness' is a mistaken generalisation, and even to start accepting the term is to succumb to an agenda instigated o...

I saw Kripke at a conference earlier in the year. He was physically weak but enjoyably difficult to understand. There's lots of life left in Wittgenst...

I think this is a philosophical mistake, particularly in relation to economics. A macro problem is not always solvable at the micro level. Problems th...

Alas there aren't enough local jobs for local people round here :)

One difficulty in getting political traction here is that 'they' include both Conservatives and originally New Labour.

Call some place paradise / Kiss it goodbye...:) No danger of excess immigration of late, BC, but thanks for worrying for me.

I live in a terraced house, which is modest though not tiny, and I live in one of the poorest areas of England, which is the only way I can afford a h...

Collingwood thinks that understanding someone's metaphysics is a process of asking a question, and then another question, and then another, and that o...

Well, you made the claim, it's not unreasonable to ask you to supply the link to the evidence. You spoke of 'proof' but it's a long way from that. But...

Wayfarer, I wish you all the best. By necessity rather than choice I downsized in property so I have a little fund plus the State pension and a little...

I suggest all our voices are channelled through a Stephen Hawking machine, to avoid the melancholy end of the forum we would otherwise precipitate whe...

What is your experience of? What is that guides you to the purported need for evidence, which seems to loom large for you? How did the words you're us...

Representative democracies are even bigger than lynch mobs.

Well, it's a long time since I read Sartre and Camus, but this isn't how existentialism lives on in my memory. In one sense all you seem to be saying ...