fdrake

Have always wondered about your origin story! Thanks for sharing!

Just out of curiosity - is this some kind of accusation that I'm "cold and uncaring" because I "don't believe in minds" and "don't care how individual...

Minds working like bizarre machines that don't connect to the body's movements. Rather than distrusting bodies, which did things, I distrusted stories...

I don't think so. But that's off topic. So I'll leave it.

Why does it sound that way to you?

Nah.

Good thread @"Mikie". My "self narrative" on where my philosophical beliefs came from. Left politics - being mocked by a school friend's family becaus...

This one is also really interesting to me, a point I've really not understood before. The distinction and dependence between value and price, use and ...

I think this is related to what @"Number2018" was writing about earlier. That construing the circuit of capital as a collective exercise of agency, of...

There is a very striking passage on the relationship of alienation and the production of exchange value: The concepts which later become alienation an...

The Chapter on Money Like Harvey, I'm going to skip most of this chapter. The first bit is looking at a spreadsheet which a Proudhon-ist had (for Marx...

Continuing from here: “(4) PRODUCTION. MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION. RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION AND RELATIONS OF CIRCULATION. FORMS OF...

Is the contrast you are bringing out between what @"Moliere" and I's shared position and what you're stating is that we're emphasising the poles of th...

@"Moliere" - I think Number's point isn't inconsistent with how you've put it. Also I wouldn't read your contrast, Numbers, as a contradiction. It can...

Then that would apply to both. Your conclusion is consistent with the paper's main argument.

I think it does too. At least for the Marx of Capital Vol 1. Equal valuations of commodity amounts don't care whether their representative's amount of...

If you believe opt in consent is the difference between surrogacy and opt out organ donation being ethical, yes. But I think the argument in the paper...

(3) THE METHOD OF POLITICAL ECONOMY This section begins with an elaboration of the pattern of analysis covered in section ( 1 ). Specifically how prev...

I don't want to talk about it. My planet needs me.

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@"Xanatos" - find some way to talk about that without posting that link, or any other links like it.

Cheers.

@"Moliere" - were you sent an invite link this week? I've yet to receive one.

Thank you!

I'm intermittently unable to concentrate and ill, I've only gotten round to Grundrisse readings today, but have read the companion statements. Some no...

Oh I see you already did the thing. Sorry.

Thanks for all this @"Moliere". May I ask you a favour? I'm trying to read along with the Marxists.org version, but I suspect the page numbers are way...

@"Wayfarer" Integers are outside the naturals. Rationals are outside the integers. Reals are outside the rationals. Complex numbers are outside the re...

Perhaps I misunderstood the terms. I interpreted seeming as an act of perception - what you see. So the thing with green leaves and a brown trunk seem...

Yes! It seems to Bob that P, absent defeaters. It seems to Alice that not-P, absent defeaters. Aren't in contradiction. If Bob and Alice were brought ...

Do you feel the same way about opt out organ donation? I agree that WBGD feels totally repugnant, whereas organ donation doesn't. But I find the analo...

Aye! I think that's what makes the argument particularly uncomfortable. It invites asking why is one so bad when the other isn't. Give it a go! Eg; wh...

Aye. It's a sickening and horrifying idea. Though neither of those things mean it's wrong. I generally agree. And also in the abstract. The proposal h...

Is there any way, for you, that the amount of good done by the opt out organ donation program is worth the fallible way consent is established in it?

People who have been declared dead are already circulated with oxygen so their organs are recoverable in a good state. In that respect, the distinctio...

Entities in thought experiments? Swamp man, twin earth, brains in vats, grue and bleen, the utility monster, Gigantor...

I think I see where you're coming from. Am I right in thinking you're suggesting that because these decisions are made by judges and laws, a dead pers...

Edit: I misread that you were talking about opt out organ harvesting rather than WBGD, but my position's the same. Cosmetic use of organs vs clinical ...

I think I can give the same response to this as I did to @"Tzeentch", if you grant that opt out organ harvesting is unethical, you already choose one ...

Thanks for this detail Javi! I think the argument in the paper uses something like ( 1 ) as an assumption - losing civil personality occurs with death...

Nah, my presentation was unclear. I appreciate you engaging with it.

I've added notes to describe the logic of the argument @"Tzeentch". They're in the *s. Whether the inferences really hold are still up for debate.

Fair! Then you'd see opt out organ harvesting as unethical. Which is also consistent with the argument.

I think there's two ways to take this, the first is going down the path that you can harvest people's organs without seeing the bodies as property, th...

"who was phone?" is the one true muse. More seriously though, in what sense could philosophy even be said to have a starting point? Philosophical conc...

Also committed to join. Thanks for the heads up.

Therefore rocks are agnostic!

We needed to hit all of the contentious topics - we started with sexism, we moved to transphobia, then to racism, and now it's abortion!

I don't want to defend anti-abortion sentiment. I simply got the impression that @"unenlightened" agrees on the political points and looks at them wit...

I'm still struggling to understand your view and how it relates to the topic. I think I'm getting there though. Are there norms in the "state of natur...