And here is my elucidation: George Berkeley famously said that "to be is to be perceived", and as I've already detailed in my previous essay against n...
I suggested that the reason he and I disagree about whether philosophy makes progress is that we disagree about what philosophy even is and what it’s ...
I am interested in hearing more on your thoughts about Stoicism and similar philosophies like Buddhism. I wanted that to be the focus of the conversat...
I started discussing Snakes answer and then he didn’t like the way I was discussing it, so I decided not to proceed further since apparently anything ...
This is becoming a topic for another thread, but I elaborate much further upon that analogy elsewhere: With regards to opinions about reality, commens...
I was just about to start a thread like this myself. Glad I did a search for it first. Mine was also going to include race, gender identity, and orien...
I wonder why Snakes is even here if he hates philosophy so much. Is it like the old usenet trolls who would go into comp.sys.foo.advocacy and argue th...
Also FWIW on the topic of clinical mental health care and its interaction with capitalism, the last time I saw a therapist it was about work specifica...
Fundamentally all particles travel at the speed of light always: apparent slowness is just a particle being rapidly absorbed and re-emitted (by the Hi...
It’s not so much a matter of needing new energy, but of being able to keep using the same energy instead of it becoming useless waste heat. “Useless w...
If I was to claim anything about them it would be that they’re “doing science”, but since they’re not knowingly using those methods, I wouldn’t even s...
That’s a combination of a bunch of comments from the other thread, so yeah it’s long. You and I have been over the ethics thing before, and it now sou...
The point is why people bring up population sizes. Nobody is saying that blacks are targeted more than whites BECAUSE their population is smaller, lik...
Nobody is disputing that more men than women per capita are killed by police. The point is that it’s also more blacks than whites per capita, even if ...
Can the police line not proceed at a slower, less violent speed, so that the people who refused to clear the area are merely pushed back, with little ...
That is an interesting thought. That process is what drives Hawking radiation, as one virtual particle passes the even horizon and the other becomes r...
@"boethius" What do you think about Stoicism in relation to mental health amidst societal injustice? (Which was the historical context in which Stoici...
This was the approach I took in the What Is Philosophy? thread that spawned the thread that spawned this one: This ties in closely to the next two thr...
I suspect you are, like many, thinking of the supposed scientific method as something much narrower than what I’m talking about in the OP. I just said...
But any argument about why to do things the scientific way instead of some other way is philosophy. And the sciences spun off from natural philosopher...
This is great news, even if it's only slightly less shit. One thing that frustrates me though is that the Republicans don't see the obvious solution t...
It seems like real change would be the only way to unify the Trump base with the rest of America anyway. They’re largely a bunch of poor white men who...
Eh, the unity of personal identity can get pretty fuzzy and I’m far from the first person to talk about that. I’ve often wished that English had diffe...
I’m not anymore (except about much more mundane things like my job and financial future thanks to the current global crises), but last year when I was...
Yeah I saw his credentials, I just thought his philosophy sounded very similar to yours, so if you weren’t familiar with him you might like to be. Goo...
I was referring back to this bit where you were discussing the characterization of the ironic aphorist as self-critical: And so I was asking your thou...
Right, and this Information Philosopher seems to argue that entropy gradients can go on forever because thanks to expansion the maximum possible entro...
This. :clap: @"path" What if the whole of one's systematic, "totalizing" philosophy boils down to / elaborates upon a principle along the lines of "be...
Isn’t responding to complaints about someone being black in front of a white person’s house supposed to be one of the few things about the police syst...
Glad it was helpful. :-) If you want to read more of my writing, and see the ways I hybridize answers on different specific topics, there's a link in ...
I was having an existential crisis last year. I got over it back then. Now I read a bit of this Information Philosopher and saw that he had a similar ...
I don’t want this thread to become an argument about physicalism, but no, physicalism doesn’t entail that things necessarily have to decay. That depen...
That’s why every non-local cop has to have a long-time local partner (just like you describe) to keep them in check. And the locals have to have an ou...
@"180 Proof" I like most of your suggestions, but I think this one needs a caveat, which I’ve been thinking about for some time: I see potential for c...
On these recommendations, I actually started to peruse the site more than glancingly, and found to my satisfaction that he attempts an answer to the q...
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