This is false. The NY Times is always banging on about microplastics, as in this Opinion essay earlier in the year: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20...
Articulation and hearing of what's spoken happen in and through human bodies, though. (Just as writing and reading does) Language, although we often r...
Written language certainly has style. For me it has a musicality, but that may be my bias: when I developed my creative writing, I did prose and drama...
If I may also reply to this...I think Fosse is also referring to the musicality of spoken language. In music every pause, and its length, are carefull...
I'm sorry, 'dodgy' is too vague a word for my problems with qualia and emergence. I mean, both terms seem to me to cover too many, likely disparate, p...
I'm an atheist but more sympathetic to religion than you. I don't quite know why. From a historical perspective, to me the contrast between religion a...
I'm just reading Fosse's Trilogy (in English translation). We should be clear on the context: Norwegians have mainly written in Bokmål, and Fosse is a...
In my 20's I worked as an aid and welfare rights adviser. I realised with some alarm that many of the most positive and entrepreneurial of the poor pe...
I'm in the BC timescale: 28 years ago. I had a (relatively youthful) heart attack. It was still bloody hard to give up. I knew the craving was over wh...
Starting from Tomasello you are rather assuming there is just one account of joint/shared attention. But there are a number of philosphical options. A...
Something of the same applies to the Symposium: after a profound debate on the nature of eros-love, the whole thing ends in confusion, a great deal of...
Others help to identify a continuity for me. A few years ago I signed deeds giving 'power of attorney' to two old friends if I become unable to look a...
Maybe we should listen to the ghost of Nelson Goodman and argue for moral irrealism: that there are incompatible different versions of value systems, ...
Interestingly enough Aristotle does distinguish telos from ergon, which is usually translated as 'function'; and furthermore, in defining ergon, he do...
Ken, I've been coming here for quite a few years. I'd say: Why not join quietly and make a few comments, get the hang of how things are done, as you w...
Perhaps though the question is askew? To many it will make perfect sense to 'cling' to a tribe as that is their notion of a good, and a more powerful ...
I'm a historicist too. Translators of poetry roughly divide, in my mind, between literal translators; partial translators; and those like Robert Lowel...
Even in the UK, people remember where they were when the assassination was announced: I was watching an episode of the soap opera 'Coronation Street' ...
Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics placed love at the core of his view of the virtuous life: love as philia, intense fellowship between lovers, or fr...
To a non-American this seems a very weird idea. There was a schism between many young people of the 60's and their parents, but there were new bonds t...
Where are the Palestinian protesters chanting their hatred toward Hamas and love and support for the children of Israel? Oddly enough thousands of Pal...
And yet only 7.6% of Gaza residents, in answer to the question, What would you like as a preferred government after the war is finished in Gaza Strip?...
Nigel Warburton is a good populariser of philosophy. He has a couple of introductory books with up-to-date editions, and there is a stash of old podca...
I did look at the video. I thought it was fun. It's interesting that the language of the commentary cannot help leaning into a metaphorical vocabulary...
This wording is very particular. There's an interesting opinion piece in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz about Druze Israelis, who serve in the armed fo...
Book X of the Nicomachean Ethics is itself something of a metaphysical conundrum that's worth exploring. Aristotle has expended much effort in the res...
An odd feature of explorations of the 'nature' of 'reality' is that they've involved increasingly abstruse experiments, e.g. a tunnel deep under a Swi...
Could you give some examples of this tendency of 'leftists'? I don't get it. If you take female genital mutilation (fgm), for instance, are you claimi...
What's bewildering, though, to a non-woke leftie across the Atlantic is...in practical terms, it looks like in the USA that the right-wing Republicans...
My view is that the opposite of a 'failed' state is a 'successfully functioning' state. That's a very different beast from a successful state, and 'su...
Thanks for the clarification, Schop. My puzzlement goes on, however, partly because I don't recognize the leftists I know, here in the north of Englan...
Is it because I'm not north American that I find it hard to understand this thread? Bill Maher is one of those comedians who doesn't travel well, I th...
I'm inclined to think, as a subsequent poster says, that people carry their prejudices with them when they migrate. One reason I responded with a pers...
We should be clear that antisemitism is a 19th century concoction, that grew in an environment where 'race' was a hot topic, hence, in part, Nietzsche...
The OP says 'debris from the explosion kills 100 civilians'. Are you saying these civilians were 'hanging out at armament factories' rather than, say,...
It's interesting how, in describing the two events, the actions of Group A are described more emotively, with butcher and smashed. One's own ethical c...
Aristotle has a powerful examination of courage and its relationship to fearlessness in the Nicomachean Ethics, Book III. As is his way, it boils down...
I've been trying to write a little fiction, that just won't come out right at the moment, about whether some humans' belief in the subjectivity of a c...
I find pleasure/pain as a primary nexus for desire, some sort of norm, quite a difficulty. Kant's attempt at defining aesthetic judgment is built, lik...
(Long time no see and sorry I'm late to this, I've just followed an impulse to rejoin the forum) I would be a strong supporter of something like this ...
One other thing that lingers, now I'm remembering the impact of 'Crash' on me...The developed world really does fetishize the car in a most peculiar w...
I was very taken with 'Crash', which I read about thirty years ago. In a way I felt prepared for how inexorable it is. From earlier novels I remembere...
The fantasy of humans as possible brains in a vat belongs to the period when AI was believed to be achievable by analysing how the brain (which was an...
I found it hard to grasp how you would approach that question if you couldn't answer Banno as to what 'realism' might be. Much languaging (as some des...
Witt's Tractatus is analysable on this basis. It begins of course 'The world is everything that is the case.' It seems that everything flows from this...
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