Ontophilia seems to me an adaptation to - distraction from, as you've put it - ontophobia. Isn't it, after all, the business of culture (i.e. cultus),...
No. Bob procreated in order to use the child to bribe his parent not to disinherit him. No end justifies using the child as the means. I don't see any...
So making art viz. truths via fictions is always "immoral" because it violates the CI prohibition on "telling untruths"? :chin: Does K ever really squ...
Not at all. A "lie that does not harm" is not a lie, just as murder that does not kill is not murder. An untruth that "does no harm" is "ok" morally b...
No doubt, categorically he's (a) K_nt ... Only an untruth used to do, or increase, harm is a lie (and more promiscuously, even egregiously, then it's ...
Dialectical bubblegum. No. I hear there are endowed chairs. Formerly handmaiden to Theology, then mistress to Science, and now, in some (e.g. p0m0) qu...
I agree with Pfhorrest's take on MR functionalism. His 'panpsychism', however, I don't accept; as far as I'm concerned, the notion posits an ad hoc ap...
december 2019 (last month of the decade) still working through november's readings, plus: • Poppy War: A Novel, R. F. Kuang • The Measure of Our Lives...
Argumentum ab auctoritate ... :roll: Well, I have no doubt whatsoever, Wayf, that you don't comprehend the demarcation problem at all (re: your pencha...
Observation, not an ad hominem, qualifying a subsequent opinion on the merits of reading the "paper" you linked; no argument was made, or more to the ...
Scientists, like most of us on these forums, traffic from time to time in pseudo-philosophical speculation. Peer-review, etc usually sorts them out. I...
No. "The hard problem ... ", like e.g. æther, is an empty concept (i.e. pseudo-problem, based on the dissolved 'MBP'); any competent scientist will re...
a. Does philosophy have/need a future? b. Hasn't speculating on possible futures always been, or perennially engendered, a future for philosophy? c. W...
I neither claimed nor implied anything about "appearances" in relation to "phenomenal consciousness"; I used the concept of embodied cognition to poin...
"From nowhere" like thoughts or moods ... The relationship of sex to pregnancy is statistical not deterministic - not a matter of volition. Not "nowhe...
Truism of the thread title deserves another in kind: Which human endeavors of scope probity and efficacy are not "problematic"? :yawn: ... pointless, ...
Well, apples & oranges ... for starters. :roll: But, anyway, I think it would be more practical (i.e. enforceable) simply to register parents - birth ...
:roll: We plan, God laughs. The monk bought lunch, baby. :wink: Deaf, dumb, and blind, you just keep on pretending ... but why? :confused: 'Cause ya k...
• Die Philosophie der Erlösung, Phillip Mainländer • The Color of Money, Mehrsa Baradaran • Serotonin, Michel Houellebecq • Flow Down Like Silver, Ki ...
“I think that most of these movements, which often flow from the irrational part of the human … mind, that there’s very little you can do to control t...
Don't know why - my preamble describes the games on the list as and D&D IS NOT a "small game" or "micro game" or IMHO "brilliantly designed". :nerd: Y...
"The conditions of harm" are not the harm itself. And there is no "aggression" against an embryo that gestates through foetal and prenatal stages to l...
I don't agree. But assuming this is correct, why do you think this is so? Why would philosophers "neglect" the relationship of human being to history?...
3.21 says Aesthetics prepares us for Ethics and, in light of the preceding sections (statements 1.0-3.2), Ethics informs Aesthetics. E.g. Children beg...
Willingness to take whatever by murder or die trying to keep it from being taken away has always, in the last analysis, made some thing mine. "Ownersh...
I don't own or play any video games. I never have. And though it's been decades since I've played pen & paper RPGs (trpg) – which I've always loved – ...
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." ~Albert Einstein @"Pfhorrest" Well, yeah, but not all "information processing" is t...
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