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This does not follow. You must show that only a "scientific" explanation is a reason to believe in something. There are other reasons for believing in...

How would we know the answer to this except through reason?

...said every great philosopher, ever. ;) The trouble with the grandiose statements of the final demise of philosophy is that it's always in bad faith...

Yeah, I recall seeing Proof here a long while but only briefly. Shame, I would have wanted to discuss some things with him.

Speaking of which, where is 180 Proof anyway? I think I can represent an absurdist agnosticism - the uncertainty of God's existence adds an additional...

Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays and Aphorisms Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling Richard Polt - Heidegger: An Introduction Robin Le Poidevin - Arguin...

Probably one of the things about philosophy that motivates some people to chastise it as stupid is how nothing seems to be set-in-stone. Now of course...

One of the things consistently brought up by the EA community is the importance of avoiding burn-out. Even if being a top-notch lawyer or engineer or ...

Damn right you did.

I'm gonna be a bit polemical and harsh in this response, but only because I have some steam to blow off. Dawkins is one of those chaps that just pisse...

Thank you for sharing that story, I was not aware of it. It is powerful.

Like I said, it was more of a suggestion than a criticism. I don't see these threads going anywhere and it seemed to me that you were getting frustrat...

Right, but the pessimistic point is that life is not worth living and that there are no reasons to continue it. It seems almost aggressive to demand p...

Yes, it was not meant as a criticism per se but more as a recommendation, that perhaps pessimistic threads should be abandoned because they are not pr...

I entirely agree - but what help is this to those who already exist? Might someone be better off not knowing their existential predicament, or at leas...

Truth for the sake of truth is said to be noble, but exposing people to pessimism without any additional advice or considerations seems to accomplish ...

Make another thread on it, please.

You do realize I made a summary post right after, right?

Personally I believe that depression, so long as it is not a biological issue like a chemical imbalance or whatever, stems from an extreme disappointm...

"Men" and "women" are gender pronouns, not sexual pronouns. At any rate, you seem to have ignored the question of the OP. The question was not "can pe...

So anyway, the basic argument presented is that if we define natural kinds as a family resemblance of entities with similar features, then it is factu...

Because your identity and culture is historical and it's important to learn how this came about.

By it actually making sense, at least somewhat, and being historically important.

Most bad philosophy is tossed out sooner or later. Only the good stuff gets put in the textbooks.

Some philosophy is bad and stupid. Not all philosophy. Otherwise this just becomes a cherry-pick.

No, those who have spent a lifetime studying philosophy do not call it stupid. They may see all previous attempts as wrong or misguided, like Kant. Bu...

I hardly ever dream. In fact I can't remember the last time I actually had a dream, it's been at least several months. When I do they tend to be uncom...

Moral imperatives typically are what you shouldn't do. They are constraints on action. People who tell you that you have a positive duty to do somethi...

"Yes, we get it, you think you know more than everyone else - now get your head out of your ass and demonstrate it."

Or, as I like to put it, the fundamental ethical articulation of any ethical system is that unnecessary harm or manipulation is wrong. No ifs, ands or...

Like Mariner said, don't equivocate between a degree in philosophy and philosophy proper. Kant argued that when one learns philosophy, one learns the ...

Potayto potahto

A quote by Giacomo Leopardi has always resonated with me: “Allow it to be reasonable, to kill oneself; allow it to be against reason to resign one’s m...

Presumably because it offers the best explanation as to why things can be seen as similar or different, which can also be seen as different and "more ...

Has your general outlook on life and existence changed after reading the Scriptures? Just curious.

Do you take the scriptures to be reliable?

What made you drift that way?

Not sure how effective this is going to be, but it's worth a shot I guess: https://impeachdonaldtrumpnow.org/

I mean, we produce entropy fairly well, but so do all successful biological systems. It's not exactly the purpose anyone was wanting, though. "You exi...

Got me through final exams this semester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUXVeIbqDN0

Wait, I'm curious, unless you're in a specialized scientific or technological field, how does QM, GR, thermo, etc help you instrumentally? Part of the...

Wait really

Would you agree with the idea that "post-modern" philosophy, in particular, has a bit of a beef with science and has more proponents of scientific ske...

I would like it if someone provided me with a good example of a post-modern philosophical theory that they dislike and why they dislike it. From my ow...

Have you seen the Matrix II? Oh wait, it sucked, nevermind. I was pleasantly surprised with Ex Machina - it's not perfect, but it does tackle some of ...

Interesting analogy of the vector.

What do you mean by "natural"? What distinguishes the natural from the supernatural? Is it the apparently-obvious (but actually vague) notion of "spoo...

No. None. Buddhism is chill though so I said that.

So you think the way we see emotions as "separate" from their symptoms is more of a social-language thing than an actual ontological thing? Also: It's...

No, in philosophy, everything is up for grabs. Schopenhauer talks about this in the beginning of one of his works (I can't remember which, I think it ...