The full quote reads: He was warning against extremism, while arguing that atheism would be better than 'superstition', which in context largely meant...
Here I don't agree with your argument, 'the reason we even seem to have this conception...' You're placing yourself in the Dennett/Dawkins argument he...
Me I like driving on the wrong, i.e. right side of the road. Somehow it feels more logical to me. I once hired a jeep in Cuba and it was great, plus t...
When I've missed Shoutbox for a day or two I read it backwards, it somehow makes more sense that way. Anyway I came to this and liked it :) Truth Prem...
For me, on the contrary: your claim is that nihilism is comprehensive and admits of no exceptions. It's an all-encompassing attitude to things. That t...
Logic is a multiplicity of systems built from the way we find ourselves making inferences. It's logical because a community of logicians and other thi...
I is indexical, that is, whatever you turned out to be, you found yourself among fellow-animals who say 'I' when they mean, well, 'I'. The other possi...
You are missing the I-you sense of how we are. There's philosophy about it but it's quite Continental and might not appeal to your scientific world-vi...
I'm sorry any reply is short, I am busy for a few days. It is hard to know one another just through forums like this, and one takes shortcuts based on...
Well, then you need to continue your dialogue with Mariner, for it's not clear to me that it's any *better* to describe how I feel when listening to S...
I agree. Against this, I like Williamson's notion of 'knowledge first' - knowledge as foundational and in a separate zone from belief. But I've read W...
I completely agree. You know when he was in Vienna in 1926 or so Feigl tried to introduce Witt to the rest of the Vienna school, thinking they'd get a...
Well, the dichotomy is in the language and is present in much philosophising, including yours. I believe we are constantly both reasoning and emoting ...
Thanks for this very interesting quote, Wayfarer. It isn't how his biographer Monk (sic) reads his view of religion. But certainly Wittgenstein was pr...
I felt your answer, db, was very powerful. It's worth noticing that you found it right to say 'feeling' several times, and 'desire'. I'm an atheist wh...
Over here in the UK the Greens and green issues got swamped in the last election. It felt like a revival of late 20th century politics, with added Bre...
If you don't already know him, you may be interested in Franz Rosenzweig, a Jewish philosopher of the early 20th century. He has a Stanford page. He t...
Just a joke on the side. When my (American) wife came to England she couldn't find cilantro in the shops. She asked me, why don't you guys have cilant...
I don't know if you know the paper where David Chalmers argues for a contemporary Fregeanism where 'sense' pretty much becomes 'intension'. Here it is...
I'm not a Gricean, but I@m trying to follow the logic of Grice's thought. He goes through the type business because he's trying to find good generalis...
I haven't quite grasped the distinction yet. Grice speaks of 'the belief-types' and 'the beliefs of particular peoples'. Isn't that use of 'the' the e...
Our experience includes our *imaginative* experience. I can imagine the infinite and infinitesimal, worlds in ten or eleven dimension, a divinity made...
I am most concerned about the problem of the storage of nuclear waste. After 60 years of nuclear energy production, most of the waste from this produc...
One thing I find confusing about the analytic approach, which people have explained to me in different ways without my understanding so far, is - are ...
Completely agree, that was the economist-woman's point to me, but of course it made me too reflect on what hidden premisses might lie behind 'philosop...
Well, I'm guessing, but extrapolating. I was doing a bit of reading on placebos earlier in the year and ethics have shifted so that in theory you've g...
I don't think we can dodge the fact that Nietszche was a misogynist. But of course any single quotation wrenched out of context can give a false impre...
(a) Rationality is an ill-defined quality. I sat with an Economics student in a philosophy class earlier in the year, and she and I could find little ...
Yes the Attwood thing is big over here too. The mores of Silicon Valley seem oddly 'frat-boy' too, as I've seen them called lately: that makes me sudd...
I went to my old gits' (people of 60+) philosophy group today, a dozen of us, we were discussing Simone de Beauvoir and how you acquire your gender. O...
People did actually use the word 'computer' hundreds of years before there were machines that we now call 'computers'. From around the 1640's people w...
I@d just start randomly with one of his essays. One reason I picked 'moods' to write about for school earlier in the year is that there isn't a good s...
Here, though, you're surely at a crux where Fafner is right: you are conjuring up an imaginary Wittgenstein in order to make a point of your own. 'Phi...
I like to think the work speaks for itself. But of course that's always in a context, a work doesn't speak in a void: Euripides and Sophocles still me...
This comes from a man called Matthew Ratcliffe, whose papers are free to read on academia. It's the notion that 'deep mood' is the way we are in the w...
Sadly, a different Pyrrhus, although roughly a contemporary, won a battle against the Romans but couldn't afford the casualties. I slightly mis-spoke,...
Ataraxia is the ancient Greek word for the kind of equanimity you're seeking. The fact that it was first brought to prominence by the arch-sceptic Pyr...
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