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I started a thread on Midgley's critique of Descartes.

A philosopher is thought to need a room of one's own. But the Greeks did their philosophising in the public spaces of Athens. When did this change? Wi...

I added a poll, without good reason. (I suspect the bachelors will not vote.)

Good plan.

Those who pay for a BBC licence? Those who listened to Descartes, but then managed to move on?

Knowing and believing are language games, . You are about to put food in the bowl. The cat knows that. That is a proposition. Searle rightly makes the...

Some background. The podcast that drew my attention to Rings and Books is Mary Midgley, public philosophy and plumbing Ellie Robson's essay is Mary Mi...

'Entire"? The perspective offered here is perhaps more obvious to someone who has carried another person inside their body. At the least it is a remin...

That's the gem; My moment of greatest certainty was when I held my daughter, smelling of vernix. Descartes' Second Meditation is too contrived to be t...

Try this: https://i.giphy.com/13juRqPzSYGLT2.webp

I suspect one can pick which replies are from Bachelors...

For the BBC in the fifties, it did.

A Credit raised to a Distinction. A bit low - I'd have given the HD for the spark of originality.

Your posts show this not to be the case. There are well known problems with historicism. That civilisations collapse is a Western notion, an expectati...

The poor neck-beard can't afford heating. :worry:

:wink: Yeah, not the forum's finest hour.

A page that allows us to show truth tables: https://truth-table.com/#(p?q)?(~p?~q) Useful for those who are not too lazy to be staring at Truth tables...

Yep, understood. You are interested in the dynamics of belief. Not an assumption. You did say, in italics, which presumably means that there is no kno...

Yep. That was the plan. Yep. And if know-how were a subset of know-that, that might be a problem. But if knowing-that is a subset of knowing-how, that...

I take it that your topic is the apparent turn against democratic values, and to that end you are asking about conservative Christianity. While not so...

Yes, 's is a neat bit of linguistic philosophy... :wink: Philosophical discussion tends to focus on the JTB account, with good reason, but even Socrat...

If he'd said knowledge was a subset of belief, that what we know is a subset of what we believe, that might have made sense. Clearly not.

Twaddle. Facts don't care what you believe. Trump can believe that he had the largest inauguration crowd ever, but it wasn't, regardless of what Trump...

I'll take your word for it. :up:

Foremost, you can't know something if it is not true. This is how the grammar of "know" works. If you hold it to be true, but it isn't, then you only ...

And this: Salient here is that falsification relies on the indubitability of basic observations: Here is a black swan. In order for "All swans are whi...

This may be of use:

It would be wrong to argue from the observation that science does not produce certainty to the conclusion that we can never be certain. There are thin...

Nuh. It's not hard to think of examples in which you believe something that is true, but your belief is unjustified, or you believe something with a j...

Sure, we disagree on some things. And these tend to be the things we talk about, leading us to think we disagree more than we agree. But think about a...

Wl, yes. Sometimes folk get things wrong. They think they know stuff when they don't. And the only way this can happen is if they believe something th...

You presumably don't know that...

Interesting. I find her analysis of the social and practice-based motivation in metaethics quite interesting. What is it that you find unsatisfactory?

Good Moral philosophy from Dow Nunder. So strong women bother you?

You only know stuff that's true. You can believe whatever you like, true or not. Ergo, knowledge is at the least restricted to those beliefs which are...

Two grandparents English-born immigrants, the others, five or six generations back, were convicts, guards and settlers, Scots, English and Irish.

A couple of generations back, yes, amongst other things. Ooo I stand corrected. I was looking after my mental health by forgetting the onion eating dr...

I agree! You might enjoy this article - here's a taste...

OK.

Well, thank you. But the "we" might indicate a certain parochial nature in this thread. I am not a 'mercan. Dow nunder, we have had a fair run of athe...

The ghost in the machine. Ryle took care of that. Odd, that you cite folk who reject dualism, but apparently in its defence. We need to be very carefu...

Saw what you did there... https://s3.amazonaws.com/pix.iemoji.com/images/emoji/apple/ios-12/33/0231.png

It is usual for one to be able to state the missing premise. If not, the enthytema is presumably invalid. Labouring the point, we have (I think, ? I a...

Bit of a rash of theism in the threads... as happens every now and then. What brings these episodes on? Is it the weather? The Economy? News of war an...

Downunder, we stop at the red light...

That just seems credulous. But whatever gets you through the night.

Not to the extent that other folk claim. Tolkien is better.

I don't. I have. I don't think so. It reads like a patchwork authored by men, not the word of a omniscient being. Yep. And whereof one cannot speak...

You've gone to a lot of trouble in response to a uninteresting criticism. A naive reader might well see the Binding as I have, yet a more sophistic re...

:wink: The understanding of logic of some here who do coding leaves me doubting this. I taught coding for years, in the hope that it would improve my ...