Tom Storm

Forgive me if I don't watch it. I have some time for The Doors and the Rolling Stones. The Beetles I dislike - sound like a bunch of singing chipmunks...

Apart from snippets of the execrable Wuthering Heights back in the day, I don't think I've ever heard a Kate Bush song. I avoided pop music, especiall...

Agree. And the issue with having a 'how to' is that it already presupposes an approach and set of beliefs/answers which in turn implies a bracketing o...

What is an example of such a method? Socratic? Phenomenological? Seems that a method is like a recipe by way of presuppositions.

I'd actually need to see an example of how such a superior moral theory arises in practice to accept this. To me this looks like you are just obtainin...

I rarely talk about food and I live surrounded by eateries. Almost no one who lives in the city centre cooks. I’m now sitting in a waiting area in a N...

Yes, but as has already been said, the quality of much of it will be shithouse.

Pure horror... to me, anyway. I guess you had to be there. :wink:

The problem for me is this OP hinges on a specific interpretation of one particular account of god and the afterlife. It's a fairly narrow frame in th...

Indeed. He also sings, Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just god when he's drunk Of course we don't want to distract this thread with dispr...

Exactly. Atheists are often fond of divine hiddenness. I find lack of compelling reasons to believe in the proposition that god's exist and it seems t...

I'm quite impressed with this and have not heard many people with a philosophical education make these points so clearly. Yes. And I've sometimes wond...

Perhaps it plays a similar role of superfluity as 'really' does in the expression 'really true'.

This would be rich material for its own thread. Perhaps when you get back. What we also need is someone properly steeped in post-structuralist thinkin...

Boy, you posit some provocative and interesting questions. :up:

Agree. Yes, we seem to dip in and out of various epistemologies. Sure. Aspects of science are also speculative and theoretical. Got ya.

While I think this is largely true is it not problematic? Clearly presuppositions are shared by everyone from Nazi's to Jehovah's Witnesses. Are all p...

Cool. Thanks.

I can see this argument. Nevertheless, unlike faith based entities (such as gods), there is evidence available for scientific knowledge which people w...

Quick question: isn't every position metaphysical? While positivism might maintain that the 'supernatural' is a non-starter (whatever the supernatural...

That seems sound. But sans method can we articulate any kind of approach without being at least partially subject to this concern?

A provocative question.

Interesting. I can only respond with tenuous relevance. I'm not sure I agree that we all think we are special. Many do. Many do not. Some are suicidal...

I think there's merit in Rawls thought experiment. The only thing I wonder about it is that it doesn't teach morality so much as use self-interest as ...

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I've been wondering about this for some time. I've decided that many people have a philosophical imagination and are fond of asking philosophical ques...

So I was responding to a specific point about the average person ‘asking questions’ about life and how philosophical this might be.

Sorry, I’m not sure what your point is.

Except that this doesn't seem to gauge whether the philosophy being conducted is any good or not, whether it is systematic or not, whether it builds p...

Answer: you don't know. Although this answer isn't satisfying to some, I think you just have to go with your intuitions. You can have reasonable confi...

That's an enticing frame. It would seem, however that when it comes to a simple object like a stick this could make sense. But how does one apply this...

Very nice. I missed this when you posted it. I have often said this too. I can take a walk in my city or get on public transport and just by adjusting...

How do you establish the truth of the correspondence theory of truth?

That's generous of you. Thanks. (love Annie Hall!) I guess I feel in philosophy there is so much to know and understand and so little time, that the s...

Good question. I probably wouldn't even begin to go there. I am either convinced of something or not. Percentages add nothing. What is the difference ...

Interesting idea. I suspect different personalities need different approaches. I would struggle to finish most texts as they are either largely incomp...

I find your approach interesting. I remember someone saying something like truth is subjectivity we share together. I guess that expresses the notion ...

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I see... I've never been to a country show. But I did once have a knee-trembler in a laundrette on River Street in Ballina.

I appreciate those skewered dicks much more than the poo stick (with apologies to AA Milne).

Looks like turd on a stick.

Never said you did. Just reacting to a photo as shocking to me as frame 313 of the Zapruder film.

It seems a reasonable point - and no doubt there are numerous complexities and implications involved, but isn't this notion ultimately similar to the ...

Oh, right. Thanks. We have hot dogs here - I like them if the bread roll and the 'dog' are good quality. In other words, I like snobby gourmet ones. E...

Isn't it they hanged him at dawn? What's a corn dog?

I agree but you did write - I have often been struck by a believer's impersonal Jesus - the important thing for me is the frequent lack of individual ...

Well, as Simon Blackburn has said, whatever our theoretical metaphysical commitments, we're almost all realists as soon as we walk out the door. I gue...

I suspect that there's a third Jesus - that of the religious community a person belongs to. Often based on a priest's or preacher's version. Many foll...

This is very interesting to me. I tend to read to catch up with things and I think my reading for aesthetic pleasure is over for the time being. My vi...

It seems an obvious inference to make, although I would not use the word 'evil' - it's too loaded. Bracketing those supposed 'omnis', we might also po...