What I'd like to do with Tallis as an extension of Heidegger is to continue to explore the notion of making knowledge visible. I think that in a time ...
I eventually felt that he lead me nowhere. He has a very unique capacity to make the ordinary seem extraordinary, but I can't build off of that. And t...
I used to like Heidegger, now less so, but he's interesting. Husserl has insightful things to say, but I do think he gets caught up in very serious me...
I don't agree. Not that I think Quine or Kripke are too interesting, but contemporary continental philosophy is pretty bland to me. Chomsky is excelle...
I take that to be self evident. Though I'm not particularly analytic. I'd say I'm 17th, 18th century phil + Chomsky and Tallis. And a bit of Galen Str...
Yep. You and I are virtually on the same page on almost all topics. I wonder why? ;) And yes, we can put words into a "question like" format, doesn't ...
I have nothing against what you said. And you are correct, there are mysteries in science too. But I do think that many of the classical philosophical...
That's fine. Where does one go? Depends on each person, I personally like descriptive generalization that make sense to me, that can help elucidate wh...
I think the topics I listed are a mystery and are studied (or discussed and elaborated) and we still debate them, with no resolution on the horizon. R...
Screw it, I'll go radical: In general the tradition of philosophy is to be the Mother of the sciences, but current philosophy is, by and large, the st...
I don't think anybody really knows what's going to happen next. We hear reports that Russia is re-grouping to the eastern parts of Ukraine, so they ca...
Sure. Ukraine might be a little different, but I do think that the global response to the pandemic shows how badly we cooperate with each other. Had w...
But @"Xtrix" this is not about giving in to despair, per se. It's about looking at the evidence right in front of our face. If the evidence says, we h...
Sure, but so did every other field. But they do have more in commons than what one might first think of. In so far as they both study the mind, it is ...
Well man, I mean, not too long ago Saudi Arabia was a member of the Human Rights section in the UN. The Council on Human Rights (?) or something like ...
And this can't be stated enough. Yemen is the "worst humanitarian catastrophe" according to the UN. Afghanistan is starving too. But we seem to care l...
It stirs the passions, quite understandably, but it's very reactionary and does more harm than good. Plus, we seem to have ADHD brains in the West. Re...
Hey neomac. It would be easier and quicker if you just quote whomever. All you have to do is highlight the posters sentence and/or paragraph and click...
In other news, the UN says: ‘Now or never’ to avoid climate catastrophe: UN https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/4/now-or-never-to-avoid-climate-cata...
Evolution is often a "just so" story and is used way too much for higher cognitive faculties. We obviously laugh, but we don't know why it's beneficia...
Philosophical contributions of new atheism? Virtually zero. There's no content here, just mediocre arguments rehashed thousands of times over and over...
The example of Afghanistan and Yemen too, are quite illustrative. They say a lot about "the West". Not that this should mean we should not care about ...
It's an interesting take. But, I think we are forced into the conclusion that whatever we end up doing or believing, is all an outcome of our the way ...
Yes. In this case, many oil companies are very very happy. Not to mention Lockheed and company. And seeing as this war may escalate again, they are ev...
Sure, matter leads to life, in certain configurations. But why this happens, is a mystery. It's a case of radical emergence. Vitalism may now be obsol...
I took my rhetoric too far, I did not intend to literally suggest that many people love war. The point was to express that those in power who argue fo...
Really? I think it's pretty evident and frequent. The late Christopher Hitchens, most of the Bush Administration. The Kremlin now. Basically those ini...
I know this been floated here before, but, I don't think it would be bad to have a discord channel for TPF. A way to speak directly to people who want...
They are. No doubt about it to my mind. Perhaps isolate sanctions to oligarchs and Putin, try to make these bite, other sanctions only hurt the popula...
I think it depends on the circumstance. If you are in a state of dreamless sleep, you can't say you have a self, but another person who is awake would...
They could bomb government institutions and try to spare "civilian areas" - unlike what they did in Mariupol. Then again, they'd lose plenty of aircra...
I mean I would imagine this depends on strategy. I don't believe (but lack evidence here, because info on the state of the Russian military is highly ...
I don't know about Mearsheimer, I think I remember him saying something about the conflict, but don't know specifics. Chomsky has mentioned a few thin...
I think it is legitimate to have NATO being a concern for national security. No powerful country would willingly allow a hostile military alliance in ...
Sure. It may not work. Crimea did, but that doesn't attach to other territories by necessity. But it would have been much better, in terms of less hum...
Well, IF it was planned, then there's going to have to be some serious thinking about what a "rational actor" is supposed to be in international relat...
There's a lot to your interpretation, I think by and large, rather sensible. The problem we share here, is that we cannot enter Putin's mind and most ...
Ah. Concrete evidence... yeah, that's a problem during a war, it is hard to know what's going on. Once this passes, we'll have the facts. What you say...
I mean, yeah, countries will imagine certain scenarios if they go to war and will have a plan - or an outline of one and then proceed. One such scenar...
I think China did know about Russia's plans concerning Ukraine, there's some evidence to back that up. Probably China did not expect the war to be thi...
Yeah, losing face is probably the biggest problem now. They can't go home humiliated, or to state it another way, they will not. Hence the tension of ...
That's quite a stretch and not relevant here. Taking these two territories "only', would have been much less deadlier than a full scale war. I agree t...
Doing nothing in effect gives free reign to the West to do whatever it wants wherever in wants and no regional power of any kind, will do anything abo...
What do you mean? He expected sanctions as he said in his speech, but I suspect he had in mind sanctions for oligarchs, not being expelled from the in...
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