mcdoodle

That isn't the general view. The general view is that the US authorities published the name first, but that they obtained the name from UK sources who...

1. Thanks for the reminder of the context. I still think it's profoundly sexist: you claim to know what women secretly want, and you don't. I think yo...

Me too, although I'm not sure I'd come to the same conclusion as you :) One thing about the modern era is the idea of 'fact'. I remember when I was ju...

Because it's actions not opinions that are right or wrong? Tough experience makes many a person something of a misanthrope. I don't see why I should h...

I think 'physicalism' is the wrong word here. I'm sure that 'dualism' was in some ways a response to the scientific revolution. But as I understand it...

It's not clear to me what roles mood and the emotional life, or indeed physical appetites, have in your formulation. Language-less infants have alread...

At the end of his paper on Language and Nature, Chomsky grumbles about dualistic language, used to study language and mind using 'non-naturalistic ass...

Thanks apo. I haven't embraced this idea but I do feel I've understood it better.

The puzzle for me is that in talking in these terms you seem to be adopting the information-processing approach you criticised earlier when I mentione...

Are you interested in MacIntyre? I read 'After Virtue' earlier in the summer and jamalrob suggested it might be a good joint reading project. My own v...

In a philosophy forum I look to argument, not proclamation. Proclamation is for propagandists, and belongs elsewhere than here. I also look for mutual...

No, I'd be tangential too :)

Oh, I only said that they do not correlate, with my intended meaning being, they cannot be correlated without substantial exceptions - I didn't mean t...

I'm grateful to un for starting this thread, it has at the very least sent me back to a book on my shelves, 'The social construction of what?' by Ian ...

Who y'gonna call? Structure-busters. I think I may be in a bit of a frivolous mood at the moment.

How can misanthropy, a dis-like, be right or wrong? 'Subject to evidence'? People will like or dislike as they find themselves in the world through th...

I'm surprised an Australian hasn't butted in. I understand that in Australia 'a river' is a slightly different thing from a Eurocentric 'river' (see t...

One question I would have is about your use of 'personality', a something which to me has the same sort of existence as 'soul': I hear others speak of...

Thanks for the longer explanation, apo. I think then that what's puzzling is your paradigm: I don't understand how this fits with your explanation of ...

I've been away for a couple of weeks and am catching up with threads. I just wanted to mention that there is a body of scientific and philosophical op...

The missing man in the second Stalin picture is Nikolai Yezhov. The first phase of the Great Purge of the 30's was named after Yezhov, but he fell fro...

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If you brought up a group of infants to always wear a virtual reality headset, I wonder how they would understand reality. (There might be a Mary's ro...

Just to mention, here in Yorkshire there are Yorkshire Wolds, which are in the world :)

One of my favourite campaigning songs, 'Bread and roses', was written early in the 20th century for striking women to sing. The physical is necessary ...

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Thanks Wayfarer. I suppose the Quine argument is a secondary or tertiary derivative of this: that norms will eventually be traceable back to a natural...

How about one of these? Post box graffiti

Me too. It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out. That is, I think it's not too bad.

I suspect because it's a page not an image. Here, it links. Perhaps you meant some particular image on that page.

Levinas also touches on enjoyment, on jouissance, being primary, before all this thinking. What of this aspect of his views? I'm interested in the abs...

Thanks.

I am very interested in norms. But I haven't understood the basic notion. In what way is 'convention' different from 'normativity', and therefore pote...

I'm finding it hard to put my finger on what you mean now, talking about: ...when I was responding to your concern about: Common use just is common us...

Oh, right. This more particular remark drove me to the philosophers' index where I see there's much more work going on about spirituality than I'd rea...

The placebo effect is a powerful one that accounts, for instance, for much of the apparent 'effect' of antidepressants, including drugs not intended f...

I for one don't think I'm jumping on anyone :) I've looked back over the thread and I don't know that there's anything more I can say. I agreed with d...

Well, that raises too many questions for me! How am I to trust the very label 'mental illness' when in my lifetime homosexuality was taken to be a sig...

I think the present Dalai Lama has an interesting take on this, including the notion that 'evidence-based logic' is required to explain the notion of ...

I had a very Laingian view and then in our mid-thirties my then-partner went crazy for quite a long time. Removal from a stressful work situation and ...

I've been thinking about how my mother and father both sang to me; who sang to them when they were babies; who sang to them in turn. A genealogy of mo...

Thanks for the Marxiste, tendance Groucho, views on this :) One might say: I wasn't feeling myself that day. (Of course Groucho replies: Who were you ...

Evolutionary psychologists are liable to over-emphasise evolution, and people with a scientific cast of mind are inclined to re-work interesting stuff...

Oh, that's good, too much Erving Goffman on Asylums and Laing/Cooper anti-psychiatry as a youth, I have that same bug!

All I'm telling you is how I weigh different considerations, in what I see as a contrast to how you weigh different things. You're not seeing it as re...

You want to argue for what matters to us as humans. How shall we know what matters to us, what we value, if we strive to eliminate emotion? It's emoti...

I can't say I share this view. In my 68 years of life there've been tremendous strides in some areas, including biochemistry for instance that's keepi...

Careful, you'll be diagnosed with Continentalism if you're not careful. How is Fink's book?

'Better than...' I don't know. I think I have known at least one fanatical person, for example, part of whose fanaticism consisted of being anti-super...

As you know I'm a Wittgenstein fan but this Tractatus business is just a way of putting it. Are all the facts about the Harry Potter universe part of ...