"Likes" and "dislikes" have always struck me as importantly different, especially in the context of philosophy. There are times when someone posts som...
I don't see why not. You seem to be assuming that certainty is necessary for knowledge (a position known as "infallibilism"). But why should we accept...
First of all, fewer philosophers, not less. It doesn't speak well of Rubio's education that his education didn't prepare him to speak well. Also, I no...
I never said that this was a primary goal of philosophy. The point was twofold. First, contrary to your claim that it is hard to speak of progress bei...
Sometimes the progress being made is in us. Getting a better grip on an unsolvable problem makes us better thinkers, which prepares us to better solve...
For anyone who is still terribly worried about the wording of the paradox, feel free to substitute the following (which changes nothing): 1. Pinocchio...
This is more or less correct regarding PF. Especially if one was giving elaborate responses to several different people, a post for each person would ...
The Pinocchio paradox is basically a variation on the liar paradox, and you are more or less adopting the Bradwardine-Prior response. I agree that it ...
How dare you bring this back on topic! ;) But yes, I agree. According to the Epicurean, the academic approach is instrumentally valuable in maximizing...
When it comes to the police, I think the situation is very much the same as with politicians: 90% of them give the other 10% a bad name. And indeed, l...
Well, you obviously can't be too offended by rubbish if you're reading Sam Harris. ;) But I suppose the thing to keep in mind is that you can't know w...
Like @"Baden" says, it's common for people who aren't familiar with something to think that its practitioners are wasting their time or that they know...
One problem here is that there are many things that go by the name "nihilism." On the one hand, there are specific or thesis nihilisms (that is, nihil...
I am not aware of any sustained discussion of this point. It's more of an observation that emerges from the various known historical facts (such as Ep...
I don't want to disregard the importance of new members. But one very important lesson that this site should take from PF is that curating a site's me...
I want to complicate Nussbaum's reading of Epicurus (or perhaps your reading of Nussbaum's reading of Epicurus). It is frequently missed that there we...
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