Yes, "triumphalist" is a good way of putting it. Reminds me of Hegel's quote from his Phenomenology: "The more conventional opinion gets fixated on th...
One of the main things I'm concerned about is the desire to assimilate all philosophy into a "scientific" methodology, in the sense of, divide-and-con...
While I agree "the public" has lost its understanding of philosophy, it is informed by the pop-scientists who continue to label themselves as "rationa...
I have no issue with the methodology of science, and I don't deny that science has bequeathed us with many helpful things (but also many harmful thing...
Scientists =/= atheists. There are plenty of theistic scientists. Actually, more specifically, science =/= (metaphysical) naturalism. Scientists are n...
But in philosophy, if you call yourself an atheist, you better have good reasons for believing God to be non-existent. If proving a negative is so dif...
Another question would be, is it the ball that shatters the window, or is it the individual atoms that collectively shatter the window? Is the ball an...
The issue I see here is that you're wanting a foundationalist structure of belief when there in fact is none. Phenomenologically, we do not "live" by ...
Do you have a background in biology? You seem to know more about this than the average person like me. I most exposure I had to biology was my high sc...
What do we know about the development of sexual organs? Did the male and female sexual organs develop concurrently, or was one organ around before the...
"Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without “taste,” at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. Philosophical th...
Very true, good point. Interesting points, thank you. It's not really about gender more than it is about biological sex. If we define biological sex a...
It's hard to say how much pain is necessary for survival to be lexically removed. I can't give you a precise amount but I would say that any amount of...
Why? Error theory is an extremely implausible hypothesis. Are you absolutely committed to the thesis that the wanton torture of innocents is amoral? G...
Of course there are definite good reasons for contributing the majority of one's disposable income to charity. The consequentialist has to find the ba...
One of the non-obvious aspects of consequentialist thinking is that we are not normally consequentialists in our everyday living (which of course rais...
I feel like what happens a lot when people study philosophy is that they don't actually really learn anything, but somewhere along the line they get t...
No, this is wrong. Are you seriously telling me Nietzsche advocated his metaphysical scheme based on faith?! No, this is also wrong. Quantum mechanics...
Not mine, don't kill the messenger! No, please don't start this. I want scientific theories (which you graciously provided), not a debate about antina...
I have thought about this before as well. The phenomenology of planning is that there are multiple options, choices, that are possible. So the questio...
Might want to look into Simon Blackburn's quasi-realism. It still runs into the difficulty of justifying how exactly morality is objective, but it man...
It's really the only thing that truly gives me an enduring sense of satisfaction and fulfillment, other than close friends and family. I came across i...
No, science does not dodge "why" questions, it just traces the answers as far back as is needed to make the model work. There's no need to insert some...
I'm not finished reading Braver's book yet, but as I recall Dummett equated realism with the principle of bivalence because he wanted to steer as far ...
In many (most?) cases, philosophy is born from a certain desperation. Wittgenstein seemed to be aware of this, but so was Heidegger, and Descartes' wa...
Christ, be charitable. Lemons do not need to exist beforehand in order to make lemonade, if that clears things up. They need only exist at the time of...
How does acknowledging a lemon's prior existence contradict my claim that the only thing that matters is that the lemon exists at the moment of lemona...
No, that's not what I meant at all. I said the duration doesn't matter because it doesn't matter at all whether or not lemons exist before lemonade-ma...
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