Read Epicurus, Bentham, Mill, Popper ... that's not how utilitarians has been conceived and nevertheless makes no sense. The goal justifies only those...
A non-sentient robot is a tool. A sentient slave used like a non-sentient robot is not a tool but is, in effect, a torture victim, a slave. The latter...
Maybe because, in many circles (here in America), p0m0 has become the illness it seeks to cure, the 'anti-metanarrative metanarrative', so to speak, v...
Because the discussions are freeform and "anything goes" as considered "possibilities" ... Perhaps it can't be helped. It often feels like searching f...
Read some Aleister Crowley (re: imagination+will) or stories about djinn granting wishes and the old pagan myths. "Results" are just ex post facto rat...
I think discussions on your threads on self, evil, consciousness, mystery, etc more than most(?) other threads illustrate a metaphilosophical problem:...
Of course the examples are anthropocentric, the OP refers to "the world of science", which is presumable human, and not "the world of beaver dam-build...
"Logic dependably works", I think, is an assumption (re: logic is dependable), which in turn presupposes that some things work and some things do not ...
E.g. (i) observing that stars had realigned themselves to spell M-A-G-I-C or (ii) using the most powerful planck scale imaging device to discover G-O-...
:up: Interesting. Thanks. My preliminary read interprets "observer-dependent" as experimental set-up (subsystem)-dependent: different subsystems obser...
update: Dishonored & Alien: Isolation got adapted to tabletop roleplaying games (tRPG) in the last year or so, both of which look good from what I can...
There's historical precedent, don't you think, for suspecting that any alternative to acknowledging evil as "Evil" is the greater risk? Kumbaya with a...
So, in fact, "evil" can reach a point that an oppressive regime cannot be said to be "counterbalanced by good policy elsewhere". Your example of the F...
Transnational Corporatocracy ... We're almost there (and ironically only catastrophic climate change might either "save the village by destroying the ...
So the "evil" of the Stalin's regime (e.g. gulags, show trials, purges, collectivisations, 1939 non-aggression pact with Hitler, etc) was "counterbala...
No. They count as a formal system of transformational rules. Keep in mind, I'm referring to nothing but philosophical statements in my previous post. ...
Okay, somehow this got lost on first read of the OP. No no no no no ... Nada. The p0m0s are great exemplars of how not to do philosophy: obsession wit...
What do you mean by "justifiable"? You ducked my question on your previous thread about p0m0 when I'd asked because I don't see anything significant o...
No doubt. I'm not sure I ever read this text and it would've been in the 1980s if i had ... Good reference though – thanks. For me, suppositions – phi...
Ethics, even when grounded naturally, neither describes nor explains matters of fact or formal constructs; instead, it reasons toward more coherent an...
I was active in the environmental movement in the 1980s, studied deep ecology / ecological economics and worked for the Greens in the 1990s, and Spino...
What makes Man "special" is her awareness, even in conscious (symbolic) denial, that as a species it is not special at all in the cosmic scheme of thi...
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