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I also own copies of Popper's major work's that I can reference (including 'The Open Society and It's Enemies 1&2')if Chaz would be willing/capable of providing improved explanation and some supporting material. Or does he simply name drop and defend as if that is supposed to impress? Disappoint...

Is there a list available of prominent/influential/popular male feminist thinkers?

At the college I attend there is offered a Women's Studies program, O.K. not technically feminists but my bet is this is as close as you can get to a "feminist degree" (I would be interested to hear comments on that). Anyway so on the Women's studies webpage they have one photo in particul...

That we should allow the present to frame the scope of our outlook regarding ideas of an abstract unproven process? Even in light of past scientific progress in relation to philosophy of science and mind? Are you sure? No, I don't think you are applying the criticism of 'historical statements' prope...

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The thing to try to remember is that there are often aspects of a philosophers thinking which will only emerge in the future. This is the nature of philosophy, thinking the future. Although it may seem that much of what is said is repetitive, often it is because rationally argued these 'fundamentals...

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I asked what is consciousness?..someone answered me already his name is Bernard..he said if its living its conscious..that makes some sort of sense to me.. although dead men do speak..we read their literature everyday Chalmers' definition is that an entity has consciousness: if it is something it i...

In evolutionary terms some plant-like cells, as in eukarya (i.e. single celled organisms), able to reproduce sexually without consciousness eventually evolved consciousness after millions of years of division. I would say that plants are much closer to consciousness than your average rock, or even m...

I believe that some years ago now the internet worldwide surpassed the human brain in a number of physical quantitative attributes (i.e. Nodes, connections, terminals, hard-lines) this does not address the obvious differences in amount of qualitative information presently available. The internet exi...

Here is a gem of novelty for you: From some viewpoints if you consider that consciousness may be contingent from the physical interconnections of neurons which are similar in overall design to basic elements of common electrical circuits (i.e. Input/output strictly transferring electrical energy). T...

Forgive me for not having ready all responses to this, or even much of the supporting material presented originally. I would like to share an interesting idea that I came across reading David Chalmers' recent The Character of Consciousness . His postulate is that perhaps consciousness will come to b...

"The Ticklish Subject" - Zizek
"Don Quixote" - Cervantes

Nietzsche was radical but I have often heard the Heidegger is one of the most influential.