In the case of burgers and hot dogs, no, you are not being consistent, but that's acceptable. You like burgers more than hot dogs. But apply this reas...
One of the points of abolishing speciesism is becoming an active role in the ecosystem - i.e. intervening and eliminating predation, helping diseased ...
There is not. You are asserting that propositional mental content is required for self-consciousness, or any sort of experience at all for that matter...
Christ, last night's debate was a literal shitstorm. I cannot, for the life of me, understand how either Trump or Clinton have made it this far. It fe...
Please explain. False. Quite the opposite, I realize that nobody wants to die, nobody wants to suffer, nobody wants to lead a tedious life, all struct...
Well, what other purpose is there for society other than to help people survive and the sedate them from their fears? Hints of instrumentalism can be ...
What? What is more realistic is that society developed initially to support our needs to survive, but later began to develop as a means of keeping our...
Anthropology also can help explain as to why humans have to make culture to begin with. Done unbiased it shows how humans have developed civilization ...
And you're trying to reduce transparent phenomenological experiences to a foreign anthropological structure. As if recognizing the sustaining force of...
A non-painful state of affairs is a bit incoherent in my opinion, as a state of affairs can't feel pain. Instead I would call it a state of affairs th...
Different scenarios require us to use different techniques. Because phenomenologically that is the case, and that is where ethics resides. But again t...
I don't see how this is necessarily of cosmic importance. After all, if we're talking holism here, a little change doesn't alter the overall structure...
By literal non-existence I meant an absence of something. I can imagine having another sibling. This sibling is absent, non-existent. A pure possibili...
No. In regards to the preference satisfaction ideal world, this aligns with what I see to be the morality of childbirth - for childbirth to be moral, ...
See if there's any openings around you for philosophy teachers, maybe in grade school or a community college. You might have to have education credent...
Accepting that I might be wrong doesn't preclude me from having an opinion to begin with, or to have a sense of exigency based on that opinion. The fa...
One strategy would be to not participate in discussion with them in the first place. Though we have to be careful not to confuse bigotry with exigency...
Interesting. I knew that natural selection was not equivalent to evolution but was under the impression that it was the most powerful force in the evo...
Interesting quote by Nagel, I believe I read it a long while back but forgot about it. Although I consider myself agnostic, I will admit that I hold a...
I can see myself doing that. I'm pretty skeptical myself. But in general the engineering crowd, or the STEMlord crowd for that matter, is filled with ...
I have a love-hate relationship with Amazon. I recently binged four books off that website, all philosophy-related. The first was a book on process ph...
Leibniz is an idealist. A monad is basically a mind. It's a "windowless container", accessible only by the outside by a special monad known as God. Go...
How would I describe consciousness? I would argue that consciousness is the presence of a world. Metzinger has some interesting thoughts on this: For ...
I agree, emotion (or passion) is a crucial aspect of inquiry. We wouldn't inquire if we weren't at least curious, after all. Furthermore, many philoso...
Sounds like you're world-weary. Weltschmerz. The feeling of experience as "heavy", or "syrupy". I wouldn't even call it listlessness or ennui. You're ...
Ugh, no, if we did that, then we would all see who each other really are and would have to actually be considerate and respectful. This is the interne...
You misunderstand what I meant by static. By static, I merely meant unchanging, I didn't mean causally inert. The existence of a opportunity-preferenc...
I see no reason to distinguish between preferences and reasons, as if they are two completely separate things. Reasons, in my view, are just static pr...
Exactly, it's not a choice at all. It's like a compass pointing to north - it is forced to point north, but nevertheless we need the needle to know wh...
But whatever it chooses, it must choose. It doesn't make sense to have a strong preference yet pick the route of least preference satisfaction, otherw...
Not necessarily. We can see will-power as a kind of illusion. In any case, what exactly is going on when we choose, if not the process of evaluating o...
The power of the will? What is the will, if not the manifestation of the most prominent preference, or the conglomeration of a multitude of compatible...
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