Manuel

That's the problem. And I understand that people want a life and are tired of confinement and local business are having a horrible time. That's to be ...

So, I'm seeing that the Delta strand is now ravaging the world. It's already pretty ugly in the UK, South Africa is a disaster as well as South Americ...

As I understand it, Being and Time was extremely influential for postmodernism, that came out in 1927. And also for existentialism and phenomenology. ...

That comes out of phenomenology, which precedes postmodernism. Merleau Ponty died in 1961, whereas post-modernism came out in the late 60's early 70's...

And that's a fair analogy. But behind the heavy verbiage, what's new in postmodernism? If you want to say that it arose in combination with a certain ...

Excellent post. :up:

Ah. I think part of it has to do with one's attitudes towards the Parisians: Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Deleuze, Lyotard, Baudrillard and so on. If thi...

So you're sympathetic to postmodernism?

I mean there's many aspects to it. There's even something called postmodern architecture, based on deconstruction. But the idea would be, if you ask a...

If all it takes to describe something as an epoch of history is someone merely saying something has happened, then things would be really confusing an...

Stubborn Fact and Creative Advance by Thomas E. Hosinski By far the best book I've read on Whitehead, finally I can begin to make some progress here.

Starmaking by Nelson Goodman The World as Will and Representation by Schopenhauer Why Materialism is Baloney by Bernardo Kastrup Treatise Concerning E...

Well, if you're not in favor for freedom of speech which you hate, they you're not in favor of freedom of speech. Saying one likes free speech when yo...

Thanks very much for the detailed analysis. It's horrifying. It's also quite distressing not knowing too well when a point of "no matter what we do, w...

I think that for philosophy specifically, you eventually find one school of thought or pattern of ideas that you sympathize with and then you mostly s...

If you're looking for something not too long, but quite compact and lucid, you can't go wrong with any of Bryan Magee's books. For a first timer, I'd ...

@"James Riley" @"T Clark" To steelman an argument is to present the argument in the best possible formulation. In a sense it's presenting your opponen...

:up: Exactly. Which is why we have novels and can gain some insight into the human experience.

I don't think we know enough about "higher animals" to be conclusive on this. Obviously not based on race, but there are cases in which families of ma...

Well people believing in pedophiles coming from space or that Trump is going to get reinstated some time this year is so far off from anything based i...

Some of these Republicans make me question everything. :meh:

Sure. We also often rationalize things away as if we were going to do whatever we ended up doing anyway. So it's not as if by having a self, we have a...

It's been pointed out before, but when Hume says: "For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particu...

This is a philosophy forum, where one would hope people would want to use reason to attempt to establish tentative conclusions about the many aspects ...

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:up: It's just not my personal area of interest, though I do for example think that Hume's talk about ethics is interesting. Aristotle, from what I ca...

I'm not much interested in ethics philosophically, with a few exceptions when it comes to our intuitions of right and wrong. I suppose my exception wo...

Yeah, that's pretty funny. Weird names for books, back in the day.

No. I don't think we can explain existence at all. There are facts that lead up to our existence, but they could've turned out in a different manner a...

Yeah, there's a virtually endless variety of perspectives people can take on the very same event or circumstance. It seems to me that what you are pro...

I'm a bit unclear on the point you're making. Is it that we have to analyze appropriately certain events? So the argument would be that many people do...

Yes. But then I'd say that instead of speaking about evil people, of which we can find quite a few, all of us can do evil things. And evil people can ...

That's quite an argument! I prefer to keep it a bit more simple and simply say that, obvious things aside such as the capital of Italy or math, we rar...

Than you have excellent taste. Peirce, James and Dewey and all the others of that era are sometimes underrated, there's just a wealth of knowledge to ...

And again, you're view is totally sensible. I'd even say it's pragmatic, in terms of the classical American tradition.

Oh yeah. I have generalized anxiety disorder and mild depression, so I'm quite aware of how tough it can be and all the many factors involved. Obvious...

Of course. It's a curious aspect in artists this relationship with mental illness of some kind. Some can manage it better than others. But it not plea...

I mean sure. I forgot where I read or saw this, but someone pointed out that professional athletes happen to be people who are supped obsessed on one ...

Sure, I'm similar in many respects. It just that if you espouse views like this, people tend to think that you're doing something wrong or are missing...

Sure, I agree. This applies to virtually to everybody. Few people bother to study the underpinnings of belief systems.

:up: I mean the "nothing to lose attitude" is great and good and is often sound advice. But if you are fine with how you are, there's nothing wrong wi...

Well if metaphysical views apply to ordinary life, then it's relevant. But fair enough, you are correct that it could go off topic.

That's as good a path as many notable traditions in philosophy. I may be wrong with my assumptions here, but it seems to me that a lot of this ties ba...

If it could be detected somehow, the technology used to detect this simulation could be useful for physics(?) or whatever relevant science. But if it ...

Well, there must be many, many people much worse than him in terms of how they articulate what they believe, never mind the biology. But in terms of b...

Since it's Kantian, I'll let is slide even if it ethics, as it counts as "technical philosophy". :joke: :up: Sure. Hardcore atheists can be interestin...

It's a bit unsettling to think how much people crave certainty, when it is difficult to achieve. I mean we likely know one or two topics more or less ...

That's quite a good distinction of doubt vs genuine skepticism. The doubt always everything is likely the reason for such things as Q or nobody walked...

I didn't have deductive logic in mind. More like general statements and many questions about events and the like. Like a minute ago I saw X walking by...

Interesting, thanks for sharing. Yeah, being an engineer would make certainty a big priority. I'd probably freeze and nothing'd get done. As for metap...