Ah, well I'm not much of a one for either of them as stylists. I'm about to study a module which begins at the Tractatus and logical atomism and so I'...
Me too. Nelson Goodman's 'Ways of world-making' might appeal to you as it does to me. He argues (as I remember it) against a univocal this-is-how-real...
I think my present-day favourites in the movie genre are Haneke films. I recently saw 'Happy End' which naturally doesn't have such an eponymous final...
There's text, and there's subtext. As un said earlier in the thread, a small group like this forum, or any voluntary society, has rules about people's...
I'm active in the Greens in the UK and we've had a universal basic income as policy for a long time. At the last elections other parties started talki...
I think this is the original, in Valparaiso. When someone painted it out, locals repainted it. http://www.artandbelieve.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/20...
For me 'selfless' and 'selfish' are words in a moral system I don't subscribe to. Acts done without some element of self-love...what would that even m...
I agree, it's a tough call. A class I did last autumn usefully compared South Africa with Argentina - Truth and reconciliation, led by Desmond Tutu, o...
The dying trees are wonderful here in Yorkshire too :) But I loved visiting New England in the fall (as you fellows say in autumn), two decades ago no...
Linda Radzik wrote an excellent book called 'Making amends' about collective atonement. One case study she analyses is that of the Magdalene Laundries...
I'm not clear why your post, which ends for some reason with a quote from me, has as its final remark the one above, after you have spent quite a few ...
I don't have a single starting-point except my own curiosity. I have nagging questions. At the moment my nagging question is to do with the 'wisdom' i...
Dialogue and the dialectic are to me a better ground than 'open-mindedness' as I said in an earlier post. To me this section of this post of yours, fo...
Well, I said, this is a mid-20th century fantasy, and at that time it was the view of a group of people including Feigl, named in the paper Sam refere...
It's a mid-20th century scientistic fantasy. I do think it's an interesting way of putting it, in that it spells out some of the ground that a lot of ...
In my uni work on metaphysics of mind last year I read and thought a lot about Feigl. Contrary to what the paper you cite says, Sam, he did in his app...
Yes I'm surprised sometimes by the unrecognized, or at least unacknowledged, presuppositions people bring to the philosophical party. But there are co...
I've been thinking about apology just lately and writing an essay about *public* apology - for which I heartily recommend Alice Maclachlan as a starti...
Well, I've explained how I see things, and you see them differently. I have my opinions about these matters, but I'm more interested in philosophy on ...
This is neither my experience of life nor my understanding of things I have read over the years. The shift from talking about 'men as a whole' to 'men...
That is indeed the analysis. Men as a class, not 'as a whole', I would say. Just as the majority of people in my impoverished town, as a class, know t...
There is a bit of a panic going on. We need to get back to due process and so forth about allegations; such things happen after a lurch in social more...
Sam, just to mention that although I'm not participating in this thread, I'm finding your contributions really interesting and useful to my own thinki...
I think the word of Kahneman and Tversky should be your first port of call. They did a lot of empirical work on 'faulty reasoning', and the use of com...
I'm not a neo-classical economist, but I do think most neo-classical economists (and I think one needs the prefix 'neo-' nowadays) believe economic ac...
This does need contextualising. The 1980's in Britain and the USA saw an upsurge in retrospective accusations of child sexual abuse, together with som...
Oh all right then. I did have a Kantian summer a couple of summers ago but I didn't get as far as I'd hoped among Critiques so you may have left me be...
(a) I think a justification for vengeance reprisals could be that exemplary punishment will prevent others in future acting in the way that the one pu...
What sometimes bewilders me about this view of determinism is that 'the causal web', the way that determinism is supposed to actually work, is largely...
(Pardon me, busy with other stuff I'm slow at picking up on threads that are interesting) I don't think virtue ethics relates in this way to 'conseque...
Quite agree. And it is philosophically interesting. How we are with each other is not explored that much, esp analytically. The atomising of talk into...
I feel I have, in one sense, an atheist equivalent of timwood's position. I don't feel obliged to have some sort of ontology of ontologies in order to...
Unitarians have already made this breakthrough. Much good it has done them in the recruitment stakes. But it means they get on better with Muslims tha...
Every now and then people have a go at this, trying to come up with a happiness index or something, but the world tends to make fun of them. As a foot...
I think that Barbara Saunders raises legitimate philosophical and scientific doubts about Manzotti's remarks about colour, including a purported genea...
I am wary of this article. Take the remarks about colour, This is a scientific realist view of the situation and seems likely to be mistaken. Barbara ...
I suggest people all too often drift from a valid generalization about a class as compared to other classes to ascribing that to individuals of that c...
Well, I don't know how it helps to label certain activities, and then to group those labels under 'evil'. Nor do I see the argumentative step from acc...
I hope this doesn't sound complacent but, you know, I've lived 68 years and it's mostly been peaceful, modestly prosperous and amicable. I've become a...
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