You're taking epistemological positions for granted, though. I'm not talking about induction at all. I'm talking about critical rationalism vs justifi...
Since we have gotten on to the relationship of philosophy to science, I may as well go ahead and post what was going to be the OP of the third thread ...
The thrust of this thread is just the general categories of philosophical questions and the relationships between them. This thread is not about my bo...
That's foundationalism, which is far from uncontroversial. As I said, you can instead -- as critical rationalism would have it -- start with a survey ...
The OP of the second thread in that series on the demarcation of philosophy I was planning: "Philosophy is not Sophistry". (The first one was to be ti...
I think you're misunderstanding the whole general thrust of this thread. I'm not putting forward any ideas about particular philosophical questions. I...
The question of consequentialism or not is whether the ends justify the means. “No” is obviously a possible answer to that. The means of course are st...
Not necessarily. It can start with a survey of possibilities, reduce to absurdity some of them, and then proceed from whatever is left. I’d argue that...
Particular instances of people acting in moral ways and holding moral opinions are part of reality or course, but the question “what is moral?” is sep...
Maybe instead of my planned series of threads on the demarcation of philosophy from other things, I should just do a series of posts in this thread si...
It’s not of an ideology, but of the topical structure of philosophy itself, how the different subfields relate to each other. There’s no specific view...
Their relations to each other in space depicts their relationships (which are explained more in words earlier). And there isn’t a hierarchy, it’s not ...
The first law does not hold on a cosmological scale. Even right now new energy is being created everywhere, which drives the accelerating expansion of...
Since we're talking about demarcation, I would add a short list: Philosophy is not religion Philosophy is not sophistry Philosophy is not science Phil...
The characteristic activity of philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, not the possession or exercise thereof. Wisdom, in turn, is not merely some set of...
I took a stab at it, not super easy to read because it's a 3D structure that's not animated like the one you linked, but I tried to compensate with tr...
Because some senses of those words have been used in a way that is completely divorced from any physical behavior or functionality that we might use t...
That sounds like something you might like to peruse my philosophy for then. From what I’ve read our takes on reality and knowledge are very similar, a...
I will try to draw a diagram to help better illustrate soon. An incompletely structured diagram showing at least all of the fields is this: http://www...
The economic and political science interests are what lead me to ethics and political philosophy etc. Does your system have an account of that prescri...
Another bit I forgot last night was to explain the connection between epistemology and deontology and the fields “below” them in the third axis. The t...
The apparent problem is that “the grass being wet is a necessary condition for it to be raining”, which is supposed to mean the same thing as “if it i...
Time is not a factor in logical necessity. If it can't both be the case that "it is raining" and the "ground is not wet", then the ground being wet is...
Oh a bit I forgot to add about that third axis, the practical-abstract one: it seems like that's the axis around which competing broad trends in philo...
...leading to the conclusion that there are no answers to be found there, and then giving up on the pursuit of them. It was doing philosophy unsuccess...
The “philosophies” that can be harmful are, upon deeper examination, antithetical to philosophy itself, in that rather than seeking wisdom, they eithe...
The left is definitionally pro working class. The problem recounted in the article is that people and organizations that used to be left have drifted ...
stupid "those who don't really understand what we're trying to say" lazy "those who don't really care what we're trying to say" mean "those who don't ...
Do Australian philosophers of science discuss how the discovery of a single white swan could disprove the hypothesis that all swans are black? (Fun st...
On this note, I think it would be useful if we had a term besides "rights" for the kinds of things that are all too often called "basic human rights" ...
By realizing the triviality of it. Even if solipsism is correct, the solipsist still finds themselves having experiences of something that is seemingl...
I voted "yes", but honestly the term "natural rights" causes needless confusion. One person's rights consists in either their own permission (liberty ...
It's not academia that has made it un-fun. I had a great time studying philosophy at university. It's the inability to find a continuation of that sam...
Good choice, and glad to hear you’re making sure efforts to help other people. I expect that that will make your own life feel more meaningful and wor...
I wrote the OP. I am clarifying for you what it was about. It was not about just applying the project management triangle to philosophy writing. It wa...
I’m glad the conversation has since moved on past my book and I don’t want to bring it back to that. But I want to clarify on the actual topic of this...
I think you have not read much of it then. I’ve seen very little indication that you’ve read anything at all of it. I have done that. Where in the tex...
This is what I’m doing. I never expect the reader to always be familiar with some prior philosophy already. I always try to build up all of the argume...
You get that I’m just using the terms from that mnemonic right? I’m not actually thinking “gotta make this easy for the stupid people” or anything lik...
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